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21) Love and Apollo
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"Can you fall in love with someone before you meet them? Valona, the eighteen year old daughter of the deposed Prince of Piracus believes she can. Beautiful, spiritual and aching for adventure Valona is convinced that the perfect man exists because she has seen him in her dreams; all she has to do is find him. Valona is excited when she is asked by her wealthy relation the Duke of Inchcombe to become Lady in Waiting to his sister Lady Rose. Together...
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Wealthy businessman John Gardner counts his wife, the widowed Countess Napier, as his finest possession. Beautiful, refined and a devoted mother, the Countess has the one thing that all his money cannot, buy, a place in Society. When she dies still grieving for her first husband, the volatile Mr. Gardener decides that his stepdaughter, Lady Selina, should become his passport into the titled classes. Eager to fit into a world that values birthright...
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The Marquis of Milverton strides into White?s Club in a high state of irritation as he is being pestered by his family to take a ?suitable? girl for his wife. He is not surprised to find that his aristocratic friends are suffering the same pressure and they
gather together to complain about their plight.
They are all having affaires-de-coeurs with seductive married ladies and the Marquis himself is very much involved with a glamorous Countess. However...
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"Intrigue and imminent danger await the young men brave enough to join 'The Great Game', the political conflict between the British and Russian Empire, and Captain David Ingle is one the bravest as he saves a Fort in India from attack, disguised as a Muslim Holy Man.
Returning to Calcutta, David is congratulated by the Viceroy for service to his country, but warned that the Russian agents he thwarted now threaten his life. More importantly his grandfather,...
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Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being, hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage. Michael fled to his dilapidated ancestral castle for the first time since inheriting his title. There he heard a girl singing and fell in love. She was Bettina, daughter of an eccentric Major, a genius with gardens plants and herbs. Determined to put the castle gardens in good order,...
26) Hiding from Love
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"Lively Leonora Cressy and her school friend, Isobel, have sworn never to fall in love. They prefer learning and books to men and scorn other girls whose heads are full of storybook romance. But Leonora is suddenly plucked from the safety of her all girls' school and thrown into an adventure that forces her to reconsider her childhood vows.
Returning home to meet the new stepfather who has taken her beloved father's role as protector and provider,...
27) Stars in the Sky
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"Sylvia, daughter of the Duke of Belham, is bored with the various young men she meets at Lady Lambourne's masked ball. At last she escapes their attentions and makes her way into the cool, moonlit garden, where she encounters a masked stranger.
The following morning, Sylvia's father reveals that he has amassed such debts from his gambling that the family can no longer maintain their high profile London life. They must return to Castle Belham and...
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"Some girls can wait a lifetime for one man to fall in love with them, but Selena Norton is so pretty that every man she meets is promptly smitten – including those who are attached to others. Angered at gentlemen showering her with flowery compliments and unwanted kisses, Selena longs for someone to see past her beautiful face and appreciate the intelligent, loyal, fun girl inside. Rescued by the chivalrous, but penniless, Earl of Wakefield from...
29) A Shooting Star
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The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country, until she was nearly nineteen.
She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who had died suddenly. Now at last she travels to London for her Season.
Her father, Lord Linwood, and his friend Lord Carlsby are courtiers in attendance on Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and they are very proud of their position at Court.
Quite...
30) Love Drives In
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"Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages.
While she was in France, she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But, she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage.
For a while, she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great...
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Neisa More and Carol Waverton are cousins. Both girls are beautiful, intelligent and hoping to find true love, but there is one major difference between them – money, or in Neisa's case a distinct lack of it. The daughter of runaway lovers, Neisa's father is an impoverished Vicar whose passion is writing stories about his travels in the Far East. Back in England after accompanying her parents on their many adventures, Neisa lives a quiet and secluded...
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Viola Brookfield has not a care in the world until the awful day when her parents are tragically, killed in a road accident, leaving her all alone in the world. So when, her Aunt Mary, Lady Wakefield, writes to invite her to come and live with her in India, Viola decides to accept. But when, she arrives, she finds a country fraught with unexpected dangers and that her uncle, Lord Wakefield, behaves as if she is not welcome. Viola's life is further...
33) Pray For Love
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"With all the trappings of wealth, but none of the money to maintain the large historic houses they inherit, society beauty Lady Galina More and her charismatic brother, Georgie, the Earl of Ranmore, are in despair.
It seems that the only way to secure their family estate for future generations is to throw away any hopes of romance and marry well. But can a wealthy suitor for both brother and sister be found amongst Victorian London's glittering...
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Daughter of the Earl of Longwood, a gentleman gambler, and the Countess of Longwood, a society beauty, Lady Yolanda Wood has an exciting if unconventional childhood travelling around the casinos and racecourses of Europe. But life changes dramatically after the tragic death of her father, and she and her ravishing mother are left penniless and alone. In mourning for her husband, and dependent on the kindness of self-made millionaire Oliver Garrack,...
35) The White Witch
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The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society, Locadi, Lady Marshall, and when her husband died, unexpectedly, the Marquis, set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he, wished to avoid any gossip, arising about their liaison. After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time, when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate. Then he began to suspect...
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When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty.
Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, a disagreeable man who had turned his back on the world following betrayal by the woman he had loved. Surprisingly, he agreed to help by pretending to be engaged to Lavina, and, with her father, they...
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Dalma Wickham, having been in Athens to learn Greek, arrives at a British Steamer to return to London to find that they will not allow her dog, Twi-Twi, on board.
Because she is, turned away from the British ship, she walks round the quay and sees a most magnificent yacht.
While she is admiring it, a bomb goes off at the end of the quay and the seamen leave the yacht to see what has happened.
On an impulse, because she realizes it is her last chance...
38) They Sought Love
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For years Celina Storton had been in love with Robin, the Earl of Torrington, but he spent his time in Paris, pursuing beautiful women and the more the merrier. Then his mother's illness forced him to return to England, where she demanded that he marry quickly, as she had not long to live. She had chosen his bride for him — Celina. He was horrified by this threat to his liberty, but since Celina was an old friend and as he loved his mother, he agreed....
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"'How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!'
When the beautiful Lucia Mountford's mother remarries less than a year after her father's death on the Titanic, she is shocked, when the family's fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes ill.
Deeply in debt her stepfather borrows a considerable sum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton.
Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been, pressed into...
40) The Ship of Love
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"The daughter of a wealthy, ambitious man, Rowena knew that her father longed to marry her to a title, preferably the Duke of Wenfield, whom she disliked and did not wish to marry herself. To avoid marriage, they hatched a plot.
Posing as brother and sister, they would take a trip on a yacht with their likeminded friends and would help each other find the love of their dreams. Plans went awry on the Mediterranean, when Rowna was kidnapped by a Sultan,...
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