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After her mother had succumbed to pneumonia and followed her husband to the grave, beautiful young Meta Lindley is bereft. Now that her much-loved brother Richard is away in London most of the time, she is alone in the family’s once laughter-filled Manor House with only silence and her father’s pedigree stable of horses for company. Meta is delighted when Richard pays her a surprise visit, but when he reveals that he and their Diplomat father had worked as undercover Agents, it is Richard who is taken aback to find that Meta and their Mama had known all along! Then, to Meta’s amazement, Richard asks her to undertake a vital and very perilous spy mission of her own. A Russian Prince, whom Queen Victoria suspects is a spy, has arrived in England with his young sister, Princess Nathlia, and is looking for a country house where he can hunt and ride superb horses. Richard has offered to rent The Manor House to Prince Alexis for the Season and has offered Meta’s services as English Tutor to the seventeen-year-old Princess Nathlia. In that guise Meta’s mission is to observe the Russians and report back to the Queen any suspicious behaviour that might suggest that the Prince is indeed a spy. Soon Meta finds that there is very much more to the handsome Prince and the stunningly beautiful Princess than meets the eye and, as she watches her beloved brother fall in love with Princess Nathlia, and she with him­, she despairs of ever finding such a sublime love of her own.

Als die Verlobung ihrer Kusine Elisabeth mit dem gutaussehenden Sir Rupert Wroth bekannt gegeben wird, fühlt Isabel nur Mitleid. Erstens weil Elisabeth bereits einen anderen liebt, und zwar einen weit besseren Mann, der sie mehr verdient als Sir Rupert. Und zweitens, weil die Heirat mit einem der bekanntesten Schwerenöter an Königin Viktorias Hof nur Unglück bedeuten kann. Im atemberaubendsten Roman Barbara Cartlands, kann Isabel neben Sir Rupert unter dem Brautschleier verborgen ihrer Kusine zu ihrer Liebesheirat verhelfen? Und kann sie die Rolle aufrecht erhalten, obwohl ihr Männerhass ihr bisheriges Leben erfüllt hat?

In Schottland im Jahre 1750, nur vier Jahre nachdem der Stuart-Prinz Charles die Clans zum Aufstand aufrief, ist es schwer zu ahnen, wessen Loyalität den Engländern gehört und wer den Stuarts treu bleibt. Und die schöne siebzehnjährige Jona hat die gefährliche Mission herauszufinden, ob der Duke von Arkrae, Schottlands mächtigstes Clanoberhaupt, ein Verräter ist – oder mit den Engländern unter einer Decke steckt. Der Plan ist, dass Jona das Vertrauen des Dukes erlangen soll, indem sie sich als seine längst totgeglaubte Schwester ausgibt. Als alle um sie herum ihre Behauptung bezweifeln, fällt es Jona schwer die Nerven zu behalten. Aber ihre angeborene Klugheit und ihr Geist verlassen sie nicht – aber fast im selben Augenblick indem sie den Duke zum ersten Mal trifft, ist es ihr Herz, das sie im Stick lässt. Sie hat sich verliebt…Doch kann der Duke sich in jemanden verlieben, der geschickt wurde ihn in eine Falle zu locken?

Die schönen Stanton-Schwestern wurden von ihrem Vater alle als „Venus“ bezeichnet, da er besessen war vom alten Griechenland. Sir George Stanton jedoch stirbt ohne ihnen Geld zu hinterlassen und sie beschließen, daß ihr Bruder Nicky unbedingt Oxford abschließen muss. Um ihm zu helfen entschließt sich Larisa Gouvernante zu werden. Die einzige Stellung, die ihr angeboten wird, ist jedoch in Frankreich. Im Zug auf dem Weg dorthin, trifft sie eine französische Schneiderin, die sie gegen den Vater ihres Zöglings warnt – den attraktiven Raoul Comte de Valmont. Sein Spitzname ist „Le Diable“. Wie Larisa die bösen Schwingungen hinter der schönen Fassade des Chateaus entlarvt und den Comte vor dem sicheren Tod rettet erzählt dieser Roman.

So lange sie sich erinnern konnte, hatte Jessica Hedley den Merlyncourt Besitz geliebt – ebenso wie den jungen Marquis von Merlyn. Er war der begehrteste Junggeselle im Umkreis des Prinzregenten und sollte nun plötzlich ihr Ehemann werden. Aber Jessica wusste, daß er keine Geduld für ein unschuldiges Mädchen haben würde. Er würde bald gelangweilt von ihr sein und sie würde ihn verlieren. Jessica musste sich ändern. Sie war entschlossen, eine Frau zu werden – eine lebenserfahrene Frau von Welt. Sie konnte nicht wissen, daß eine solche Verwandlung sie und den Marquis in große Gefahr bringen würde.

Handsome, distinguished and decidedly dashing, Theo, the Duke of Eaglefield, has the world, and most of its women, at his feet. But he takes all this attention for granted and is becoming tired and bored by it all.   In fact his friend, Harry Hampton, tells him that he has no concept of the challenges and complexities faced by the ordinary man and that the people he encounters see only his riches and rank rather than the man himself. Protesting that this is untrue, Theo accepts Harry’s challenge to walk the fifty miles from Brighton to his house, Eagle Hall, in Berkshire incognito and mixing with commoners along the way. He stands to lose his finest pair of horses should he fail and so he sets forth, leaving behind the glamour of Brighton’s Beau Monde. The second morning of his pilgrimage, Theo comes across a beautiful young girl, Alysia, standing precariously at the edge of a deep pool next to a weir. She seems to be praying and, instinctively, he knows that she is about to plunge to her death in the river. After leading her to safety he hears all about her cruel and grasping stepfather who murdered her mother and who is now bent on seizing her sizeable inheritance by marrying her off to his friend, Lord Gosforde with whom he will share the spoils. Theo is transfixed by Alysia, thinking it quite ‘impossible for anyone to be so beautiful’.  Almost instantly he finds himself falling in love with this ‘very young angel who has fallen out of Heaven by mistake’ and he decides to take her on his journey on foot. But can he keep Alysia away from her murderous stepfather and be able to reach the safety of Eagle Hall unscathed?  

With the death of her mother, her father’s subsequent suicide by drowning in the English Channel, all in the foreboding shadow of imminent war, the beautiful young Fleur Garton is vulnerable to say the least. Even more so when her new love, Lucien, a French airman, is killed just two weeks after the Second World War is declared and followed after by the death of his mother.Left bereft and alone at a remote Château in German-occupied France, Fleur has to find a way home to England before the Germans discover her and in a French Resistance safe house she meets and falls in love with another airman, Royal Air Force pilot Jack Reynolds. Sadly her heart is about to be broken once more on arrival in England after a gruelling voyage of escape from France. Desperate to escape Jack’s family home, Fleur seeks employment at Greystone Priory as housekeeper-companion to the ailing mother of the renowned motor car tycoon, Sir Norman Mitcham. Instantly she falls in love with the grandeur and beauty of the house and with the arch but kindly Mrs. Mitcham. But, although she takes an intense dislike to Sir Norman, who seems cold, ruthless and aloof, she decides that this is where she will achieve her aim, ‘to hate all men, to dispense with love in her life and forget about it’.Gradually, though, as she begins to discern the man behind the façade, she warms to Sir Norman. And perhaps her heart is ready for a different kind of love from a man who will never ever break it.

Ophelias bösartige Stiefmutter, eine verführerische Schönheit, lässt keine Gelegenheit aus, ihr das Leben zur Hölle zu machen, direkt unter den Augen ihres Vaters. Eines Tages trifft sie in ihrem Salon zufällig den Grafen Rochester, einem engen Freund des Prinzregenten, der gekommen ist, um ihrer Stiefmutter einen Besuch abzustatten, wie so viele Verehrer vor ihm. Doch der Zufall will, dass Ophelia Graf Rochester nicht nur die Wahrheit über Ophelias Leben erfährt, sondern auch über das Geheimnis seines Verwalters. Er entschließt sich, Ophelia zu helfen – mit schicksalshaften Folgen

Lady Roberta Worth verbringt eine freudlose Kindheit im Haus ihrer Großmutter, bis sie als Sechzehnjährige den Entschluss fasst, ihrem Vater, der ein abenteuerliches Leben führt, nach Paris nachzureisen. Von nun an begleitet Roberta den Earl of Wentworth durch Europa und Nordafrika. Am Sterbebett ihres Vaters verspricht sie, nach dessen Tod nach Kalifornien zu fahren, um dort ihre Tante ausfindig zu machen und ihr ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Als das junge Mädchen sein Ziel erreicht, erfährt es, dass die Tante bereits gestorben ist. Um den kleinen Waisenjungen Danny, den Roberta sofort in ihr Herz geschlossen hat, zu beschützen, bleibt sie als  Haushälterin des unfreundlichen und geizigen Pfarrers in Blue River. Als der Geistliche nach einem heftigen Streit einem Herzanfall erliegt, verlassen sie und der kleine Danny fluchtartig das Dorf. Sie finden Aufnahme bei Adam, einem jungen mittellosen Maler. Roberta und Adam fühlen sich sehr zueinander hingezogen, und aus Angst vor den Konsequenzen ihrer Leidenschaft läuft Roberta davon...

The beautiful Belinda Lanwick has not attended the dinner party given by her cousin as she is still in mourning following the death of her beloved father. However, when the guests were leaving, she saw Lord Ian Cheddington and thought him exceedingly handsome. She knew that he was one of the most sought after young men in London and was considered the most eligible bachelor in the Social world.

The beautiful Martina Bradshaw has sadly lost both her beloved father and her loving mother. They live in the little Kent village of Preston Bailey where her father, a talented musician, had written his music, which had never been successful with the public. Now Martina has to find a way of making money to pay her household of Mrs.

Sir John Gilmour has received a letter from his old friend Gavron Murillo, who lives in Paris to say that he only has a very short time to live and wants to see him urgently before he dies. Gavron, who was of Oriental appearance and a very rich man, had helped Sir John and his father with their finances when they had been almost on the point of bankruptcy and he had made them very wealthy.

The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken at the loss of both her beloved parents. After the Earl of Dinsdale’s death, her mother had married again to William Walker, a rich businessman who is cynically seeking to improve his standing socially to help his financial interests to make him even richer.

The beautiful Vanessa Shotworth was being made extremely unhappy at the way she was being treated by her stepmother while her beloved father was away in India with his Regiment. When she was late for breakfast because she had been out riding on a lovely summer’s morning, she was humiliated by her stepmother by being told to scrub the kitchen floor or she will not be given anything to eat.

Since the death of her almost bankrupt father, the beautiful Andrea Clerefall has been reduced to the status of a drudge under the stern eye of her stepmother and her two unpleasant stepsisters. Her only friend is her late mother’s old Nanny, Hattie, who is teaching her the art of embroidery. When Andrea encounters by chance the new Viscount at nearby Mannerly Hall and falls for his considerable charms, she never dares dream that her fortunes will soon be closely entwined with his.

The beautiful eighteen year old Karla Stanton, who is living in the country with her brother training horses, is astonished when her half-sister Penelope, now Lady Melford, who is renowned as a great beauty in London, unexpectedly calls on her. She wishes Karla to disguise herself as her aged aunt and chaperone and to go with her to Paris where she intends to spend three days, ostensibly shopping for clothes, but actually to be with the Marquis of Welbourne, who she is having a passionate affaire-de-coeur with.