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The Duke of Rockcliffe returns home to England from the British Army of Occupation, which after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 is located at Cambrai.
He had left England seven years ago when he was merely a young Lieutenant who intended to spend his life in the Army.
Owing to the death of several Heir Presumptives to the Dukedom, he finds himself unexpectedly and to his great surprise the new Duke.
He also discovers that he has a Ward called Nelita,...
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When Lord Rupert Brooke and his wife are killed in an accident, their daughter, Titania, is sent to live with her uncle -- who took her in as lady's maid to her cousin. How Titania gains a King's confidence, saves him from murder, and finds her own happiness is revealed in this exciting story from Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection.
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Devastated by the treachery of the woman he loves, the Marquis of Kenworth leaves London and the Prince Regent's intimate circle of pleasure loving friends, to join the Duke of Wellington's army as plain Captain Ivan Worth. Facing hardship and the grim reality of battle he is convinced that no woman can ever be trusted to love him for himself, rather than his title, and turns his back on romance forever. Now, wounded by a shell from a French gun,...
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Pink collection volume 137
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It is 1887 and the beautiful Yolisa Warren lives in the English country side with her father, her mother having died five years ago. Her diplomat uncle, Lord Langford, arrives unexpectedly and says that he would like Yolisa to come with him to Kavalla, a small independent country in the Balkans, where he is to travel on behalf of Queen Victoria and the prime minister. Yolisa is thrilled, but on the way her uncle tells her that the visit won't be what...
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A Ghost in Monte Carlo is a 1951 novel by Barbara Cartland. It was the gayest season Monte Carlo had ever known, Mademoiselle Fantôme was causing a sensation. Who was the exquisite "ghost", with her shining golden hair and dreaming dark eyes? Why did her formidable aunt guard her so carefully?
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Keeping up appearances for her older brother, Lord Anthony (Tony) Linwood, and his Society lifestyle while also caring for their young brother and sister is becoming too much for the beautiful Minerva as they have very little money and the bills are mounting every day. So when Tony confesses that he owes the terrifying gambling debt of two thousand pounds to his friend, the Earl of Gorleston, with an unsavoury and raffish reputation, she is mortified....
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Lady Georgina Lang returns to The Castle from her father's funeral to wonder what the future holds for her.
Because her father had always longed for a son to succeed him, he had brought her up and educated her exactly as if she was a boy. She dressed as a boy and, although she had been christened Georgina, he liked calling her George.
She was completely alone in the huge castle, which was now inherited by the new Earl of Langfield, a distant cousin...
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Lady Loretta's father, the well-respected Lord Lieutenant of the County, is doing his best to force her into marriage with the Marquis of Sauerdun, the son of a good friend. Whilst her father thinks he is making a good match for his beloved daughter, she is aghast at the thought of an arranged marriage and vows she will only marry for love.
Searching her mind for a way to stay free to pursue the kind of love she has always dreamt of, she happens upon...
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Lord Springdale is becoming increasingly irritated and tired of being, told by his grandmother that he must marry and produce an heir to his illustrious title and estates.
She keeps on telling him that, as he is the last of his line and at the age of twenty-seven, he must find a suitable wife and settle down.
After a number of affaires de coeur with attractive married ladies, he is not in the least attracted to debutantes and so, avoids their pushy...
10) Paradise Found
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After the death of her beloved mother, the beautiful young Salrina Milborne and her father, Lord Milborne, have found themselves in straitened circumstances.
And now that her father has hurt his leg in a riding accident he is unable to complete the training of the horses they depend on for their income. Reluctantly Lord Milborne has agreed to sell one of his most precious thoroughbreds and, against his better judgement, he allows Salrina to ride...
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Now she is sixteen and a half, beautiful young Lady Imeldra is eager to leave school and resume her exciting life with her father the Earl of Kingsclere, who is renowned in Society as something of a "man about town". She is dismayed when he announces that his rather decadent lifestyle is not conducive to the necessary task of presenting Imeldra formally to Society and finding her an appropriate suitor, and that he is sending her to live with her strait-laced...
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El Conde no era un hombre cruel, y cuando, al viajar en el bosque de país, se enconTró con una dama en apuros y le tocó el corazón. La señora fue Sabrina Melto, una joven, inocente com una belleza etérea y profunda a la vez. Los tiempos difíciles habían caído sobre su familia y ella se vio obligada a renunciar a sus posesiones más preciadas. Por bondad y la compasión, el Conde llevó Sabrina a Londres para comenzar una nueva vida, pero...
13) The Healing Hand
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Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling to Boulogne when her train crashes. Amongst the fear and confusion she is helped and befriended by a charming young Englishman — Captain Rupert More — and with him she reaches the ferry where she unexpectedly meets two friends of her late parents, Charles and Selina Bracebridge.
Captivated by Tania, and awed by her bravery in the face of adversity,...
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Beautiful Jasmina Winfield is a thoroughly modern American girl who likes to make her own decisions. A skilled and daring horsewoman, she is used to taking care of herself and takes orders from no one, especially not a man. Arriving in Yorkshire from Missouri to visit her relations, the Duke and Duchess of Harley, Jasmina is, captivated by the sad romantic tale of her near neighbor the reclusive Earl of Somerton. Leaving Harley Grange to spend Christmas...
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Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her. Then a troupe of musicians, called 'Bertie's Beauties', had an accident outside her gates and she found herself swept up in their fate as she took over from their injured pianist. Now one of the troupe, she went to perform at the Duke of Westbury's castle, never suspecting that the Duke would turn out to be the young man she had met for a few dramatic moments many years before....
16) Double the Love
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The beautiful Ariana Dancer is orphaned and has led a cheerless life in London with her disagreeable Guardian, Uncle Konstantin Bardici. He has shown little interest in his niece and she has been left very much to her own devices.
One day Uncle Konstantin suggests that Ariana marry an Albanian Prince – one who is seeking an English wife and who claims to have fallen in love with her portrait – and it does not take much to persuade her to agree....
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Almost identical in their golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty and similarly named, cousins Antonia 'Toni' Combe and Latonia Hythe are nevertheless very different personalities.
Desperate to avoid a journey to India forced on her by her stern uncle, Kenrick Combe, the new Lord Branscombe, and which would prevent her marrying the man she desperately loves , the flirtatious and capricious Toni beseeches her cousin to take her place as her Uncle Kenrick...
18) The Hidden Evil
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At her father's request and on the instructions of the Royal council, flame-haired young Scottish beauty Sheena McCraggan sails to France to become a companion to the fourteen-year-old Mary Stuart – Mary Queen of Scots – at the court of French King Henri II. Once there, she is to report on the young Queen's intentions and those of the French Court regarding the future of Scotland and specifically whether it will support Mary's rightful accession...
19) In Hiding
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All eyes are on Lady Tamina Braithwaite as she dazzles the cream of London society at a masked ball. Dressed as a bird of paradise, even the sumptuous silks of her costume cannot detract from the glow that love has given her. In love for the first time with a handsome young politician, it would appear that they are a couple destined for great things. But, is she the only one who is pretending to be something other than she is? Underneath Tamina's...
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El Duque de Warminster no conseguia controlar su ira. Primero, aquella tonta jovencita se había introducido en su carruaje con engaños, obligándolo a cruzar media Escócia con ella. Luego, cuando el vehículo se volcó y él salió herido, volvió a mentir, diciendole a la pareja escocesa, que les había brindado hospitalidad, que ella y el Duque estaban casados. Sin embargo, su anfitriona había adivinado la verdad al instante. Con un brillo de...
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