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This Barbara Cartland take on a Cinderella story is perfect for anyone looking for a bit of romantic suspense. Raised by her aunt and uncle, Alida lives in the shame that her late father cast upon the family. Always seen as inferior, Alida never thought love was going to be in her future. But her life is turned upside down when she must join her cousin on a trip to Russia to meet the young Prince that her cousin shall marry.

London Socialite and friend of King George IV, the Duke of Strathnarn enjoys his London life and is reluctant and resentful when he inherits from his hated father the title and responsibilities of Chieftain of the Clan McNarn. Arriving bitterly angry in the highland fiefdom he fled as a youth, he’s faced with a terrible dilemma. To free his young nephew and heir from the clutches of his Clan’s mortal enemies, he must marry Cola, the daughter of their fearsome Chieftain. Appalled, he complies with bad grace, but refuses even to look his young bride in the face.

With her flaming red hair and emerald green eyes, Xenia's unusual beauty makes her unique in any crowd. That is until she unexpectedly meets her long-lost cousin, Johanna, amidst the wreckage of a railway accident. Incredulous at finding her mirror image and desperate for a friend, Johanna begs Xenia to swap lives for two weeks. She wishes to spend two weeks with the Englishman she loves before her arranged royal marriage and her cousin can't help but agree.

Love, true Love! For the lovely, widowed Lady Sherington, it bloomed in her thirty-sixth year, when she was still ravishing enough to pass as the twin of her daughter Trina. But her gentle heart is racked with doubt--for if she were to remarry, her inheritance would be lost, and the handsome Comte she wishes to wed needs a rich wife. Thankfully, she's blessed with a daughter who is both beautiful and smart and fight to solve all their problems. But will she save her late father's estate and her mother's heart.

Beautiful and penniless Felicita Galvão is destitue and all alone in the world when the Duchesse de Monreuil finds her desperately trying to sell her needlework at The Grand Hotel in Lisbon. Felicita reminds the Duchesse of herself as a young woman and the time she met the love of her life Juan, Marques de Oliveira Vasconles. The Marques later abandoned her to marry someone of equal ranking, leaving her heartbroken and bitter.

Despite the arranged marriages of her two sisters ending in misery, the Duke of Cumberworth insists that his beautiful daughter, Lady "Ila" Lavinia marries the rich and aristocratic Marquis of Rakemoore, his most serious rival at Race Meetings. Ila is appalled. Not only is she determined to marry for love, but she hears that the Marquis is only asking for her hand to avoid an arranged marriage to a German Princess. She decides to run away. Fleeing through the woods near her home, Ila witnesses a young boy being dragged away by his spooked pony and heading towards a cliff edge.

Accustomed to spending fortunes on fast women and high living, Lord Wynchingham is horrified to lose a fortune in a card game and then finds that he is almost bankrupt. So when Tina Croome, his beautiful orphaned Ward, throws herself on his mercy he says that there is nothing he can do. Unless, she suggests, he uses the last of his credit to launch her into London Society and quickly attract a rich husband. Soon she has a long list of suitors, including the wealthy but odious Lord Welton who Tina reluctantly agrees to marry to save Lord Wynchingham.

The impetuous and dashing Marquis of Troon is to marry the disreputable Lady Dilys Powick against the advice of his closest friends. In celebration he arranges a steeplechase event full of prizes, but one of the guests suddenly dies from a heart attack. The Marquis is shocked to hear that he has been named in the will as the guardian of the guest’s daughter! Throw in a kidnapping, crime and a dangerous trip to London, and you will be gripped by this story.

Socialite Aria Milborne is astounded when she has to take a job with an American millionaire in order to save her family home. Aria soon finds herself clashing with her new boss after being courted by his aristocratic friend. When her boss offers her a fortune to pretend to be engaged to him, Aria finds herself the talk of the town leading her to feel ashamed and embarrassed. But when she hears that her fake fiance has been shot, she is caught off-guard by how strong her emotions actually are.

Daydreamer and book-lover, Zosina, the eldest daughter of the Archduke Ferdinand of Blitzstein, is reluctantly obedient when her father announces that she must marry King Gorgy of neighbouring Dorsa to create an alliance between the two nations. On her first visit to Dorsa, Zosina is greeted by the beguiling and handsome Prince Regent. By contrast, her betrothed, the King, is wild and disagreeable. For the sake of her people, Zosina must go ahead with the marriage with a hope that someone warmer hides beneath the King's hard exterior.

The day Rodney Hawkhurst rides onto her father's grand estate, Lizbeth Gillingham is a wild eighteen-year-old, with tangled red hair, dirt on her apron, and an archer's bow in her hand. A chance encounter leads to a clandestine kiss, leaving the tomboy Lizbeth wondering if the life of a sophisticated lady could be so bad if she was on the arm of Rodney Hawkhurst... But Rodney has not come to see Sir Gillingham about Lizbeth. He has come to borrow money for a daring sea voyage, and to ask for the hand of Phillida, Lizbeth's elegant sister.

Major Tyson Dale volta para casa vitorioso das guerras que serviu contra Napoleão Bonaparte, mas quando regressa, encontra a sua propriedade devastada, em estado de decadência total, além de ver o seu título, roubado por seu tio. Afogado nas suas mágoas familiares, hospedasse numa estalagem local. Ele ouve uma conspiração para sequestrar uma bela jovem herdeira. Determinado em salvá-la, ele engana os vilões e esconde a jovem adorável na sua destruída mansão. Mas mal sabia ele, que o seu primo, era o noivo que a procurava, para a obrigar a cumprir o casamento combinado, para caçar sua fortuna.

Para salvar a vida do Conde, Giselda era capaz de qualquer sacrifício. Ferido na batalha de Waterloo, o Conde de Lyndhurst, corria grande perigo ao ter que amputar a perna... mas só com o cuidado de uma empregada jovem, bonita e cheia de segredos e mistérios, é que o salvariam de um terrível destino. Giselda, contratada como enfermeira eficiente, cuidou do Conde com infinita dedicação e carinho... um carinho que dará lugar, a um grande amor impossível entre eles.

Quem seria aquela bela dama misteriosa, que atraía o olhar de Lorde Silvester? Sibele e Selene tinham nascido sob a influência dos mesmos astros, do mesmo signo e no mesmo dia... elas eram, gêmeas idênticas, e quer estando juntas ou a quilômetros de distância, estariam sempre unidas pela força do Universo, como criaturas nascidas do mesmo ventre e à mesma hora. No entanto elas eram irmãs muito diferentes. Uma materialista, interesseira e calculista e a outra espiritual, culta e mística.

A bela e adorável Lady Aletha Ling, aguardava ansiosamente pela sua primeira temporada social. Mas o seu pai, o Duque de Buclington, sabia muito bem que a aristocrática posição da sua querida filha, cheia de riqueza e beleza, seria a presa perfeita para todos os caçadores de fortuna. Assim, querendo protegê-la a todo o custo, fez um casamento arranjado, custando a Aletha, todos os seus sonhos tão esperados. Assustada, ela decide fugir, viajando com o mordomo do seu pai até à Hungria, onde ele está supervisionando, a compra de alguns belos cavalos.

Depois de terem deslizado pelo mais belo salão de Viena, ao som de uma valsa sensual, o Czar a beijara! Wanda não podia acreditar. Ser beijada pelo Imperador de todas as Rússias, um homem casado e com uma amante! Wanda precisava fugir desse amor perigoso e impuro que começava a nascer em seu inocente coração. Mas como poderia escapar? O Príncipe Metternich a obrigara a ser espiã, pelo bem de sua pátria. Wanda teria coragem, porém, de trair o Czar, esse nobre fascinante que a tinha subjugado, acendendo em seu corpo jovem, a inesperada chama de um delicioso e quase sublime prazer?

Esta é a história sobre a bela Brucena, que acaba por conhecer o verdadeiro amor, em Ian Huntley, depois de conhece-lo no comboio para Sagar, quando o destino a faz viajar, para junto da sua prima Amelie, para ajuda-la com seu novo bebê. Toda esta história se passa na Índia no começo do século passado, exótica e linda, mas também lugar de bárbaros costumes, onde as viúvas eram queimadas vivas junto aos falecidos maridos.

Lady Caroline Faye, é a mais recente bela debutante, de maior sucesso da última temporada social de Londres. O inescrupuloso sir Montagu Reversby, ardilosamente, convence-a a ir de carruagem com ele, de Londres a Sevenoaks. Sob o pretexto de existir um defeito no eixo da carruagem, os dois param em uma estalagem, no campo. Horrorizada, lady Caroline compreende que sir Montagu afinal simulou o acidente apenas para passar a noite com ela.

Larentia sabia que se ficasse no Castelo do Duque de Tregaron, se transformaria numa "mulher decaída", objeto da censura de toda a sociedade. Ela não podia se entregar à paixão e à luxúria! Tinha de fugir! Mas, onde encontrar forças para escapar dos braços daquele homem? Quando o Duque a puxou para junto de seu corpo másculo, Larentia, já não percebia o que estava fazendo... sabia apenas, que ela e Justin, tinham-se transformado numa só pessoa, a paixão nasceu repentinamente, envolvidos pela maravilhosa aura do amor!

Nerina, bela e jovem órfã, fica horrorizada ao descobrir que o seu tio e tutor quer obrigar a sua estimada prima, Elizabeth, a casar por conveniência com o desdenhoso, belo e rico Sir Rupert Wroth. Entretanto, Elizabeth ficara secretamente noiva do homem que ama verdadeiramente, e a leal Nerina aproveita a semelhança que tem com a prima, para se fazer passar pela noiva de Lord Wroth, permitindo que Elizabeth fuja com o seu amado Capitão Adrian Butler.