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Horrified when her beloved dog, Rufus, is caught in a cruel snare while out walking in the estate of Arrow Castle, local Parson's daughter Shenda is at first relieved, when a handsome stranger comes to poor Rufus's rescue and then, at once she is abashed and confused, when he claims a kiss, Shenda's very first, as his reward.
But then, she is told that her father has been killed by a savage bull and that she must leave the family's Vicarage forthwith....
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Orphaned and penniless, Shenda Lynd hoped to find shelter within the proud walls of Arrow Castle. But to her surprise, the master of the castle, Durwin Bow, was the gentle stranger who kissed her in the woods. Could she save the gallant Earl's honor from the sinister Bonapartist spy at Arrow Castle?
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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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When Queen Victoria, the 'Matchmaker of Europe' decrees that beautiful young Zenka must marry King Myklos of Karanya she is horrified. Not only because she's never even met him – but also because her sister Wilhemina has. And she reports that the King is "…a beast, rude, disagreeable, and horrible to look at! His face is deformed and ugly." Even worse, it's said that he holds depraved orgies at his Castle in Karanya!
But her Godfather the Duke...
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On a moonlit January night, the Marquis of Broome, the friend and confidante of the Prince Regent, have a fateful encounter. There's a stowaway in his traveling coach! But, that's not all: under the men's clothes there is a beautiful young lady. This discovery has far-reaching consequences that suddenly change the life of the Marquis. Because the young stranger saved not only the Marquis, but the entire British government from a horrific attack. A...
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Alone since, the tragic death of her beloved parents, Indian-born beauty, Sita, has suffered a life of torment at the hands of her uncle, her reluctant Guardian, who despises, abuses, and beats her. In despair on a voyage to Calcutta, she is on the verge of throwing herself overboard, when she is, saved by a handsome and mysterious stranger. Even after her savior disappears, he seems, ever-present in her thoughts and in the background of events as...
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Catherine Robson is a rich heiress with many money-hungry suitors. She is tormented by the idea of marrying someone whom she does not love, so she makes a challenging decision. Cathy leaves her old life behind and moves to a brand new town, filled with only strangers and problems. She disguises herself as a poor beggar, hoping to find someone who will love her for who she is. And when a mysterious face from her past shows up, she must struggle to...
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On a hot summer's day in 1880, the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt's house in Hampshire.
It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener's boy.
Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous, gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before...
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"Malvina is young, beautiful – but most of all very rich. She dreams of marrying a man that loves her, and whom she in turn can love forever. Unfortunately her father has other ideas. Only too aware of the fortune hunters that prey on vulnerable young heiresses, he is determined she should marry the boy next door, Charles Arram, the son of the Marquis of Arramford.
But Malvina has other ideas. Feisty and independent, she is horrified at the idea...
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Valda lives a life of luxury with her mother and stepfather in a beautiful château in France. Educated in Paris and enjoying all that French society can offer, Valda's English roots seem a very distant memory. That is until the day her stepfather declares that in true French style he is planning an arranged marriage for her.
Horrified at the thought of marrying a complete stranger, Valda knows that it is impossible for her to go along with her...
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Lord Frodham and his friend Sir James Overton lay a wager that they can dupe the snobbish, horse racing-obsessed Marquis of Ardsley into falling in love with some beauty of the lower orders. They can hardly believe their luck when by chance they rescue lovely young heiress Indira Rowlandson from her dead father's evil lawyer who is bent on marrying her off to a bankrupt stranger. Indira is set on joining a Convent to escape the unwanted attentions...
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Employed by the beautiful, but mean Mrs. Schuster as a lady's companion on her trop to Morocco, Melina Lindsay is thrilled to at last visit the beautiful land of which her late father had talked with such fondness.
But when , jealous of the attention Melina's beauty and youth attract, Mrs. Schuster peremptorily sacks her, she finds herself her alone and helpless in a strange country.
Suddenly, a dashing stranger disguised as an Arab appears on her...
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When her irresponsible brother rents the family home, Langston Manor, for the duration of the Royal Ascot races to Valient, Earl of Trevarnon and his wild gentleman friends, lonely and innocent young Demelza is afraid.
Although married to a woman who has lost her mind and is in an asylum, Trevarnon is a well-known 'ladies' man' — and, for her own safety and modesty, Demelza agrees to hide among The Manor's maze of secret passages. As she watches,...
14) A Witch's Spell
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Beautiful, young, impoverished Parson's daughter, Hermia Brooke, is happy with her simple country life, despite being shunned by her wealthy uncle the Earl of Millbrooke and her cousin, the spoilt and selfish Marilyn.
In a chance encounter with a raffishly handsome gentleman, whom she decides resembles the Devil himself, she nevertheless helps him with a stone stuck in his horse's hoof.
Rewarded with a golden guinea and a shocking kiss, Hermia...
15) A Witch's Spell
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Beautiful, young, impoverished Parson's daughter, Hermia Brooke, is happy with her simple country life, despite being shunned by her wealthy uncle the Earl of Millbrooke and her cousin, the spoilt and selfish Marilyn. In a chance encounter with a raffishly handsome gentleman, whom she decides resembles the Devil himself, she nevertheless helps him with a stone stuck in his horse's hoof. Rewarded with a golden guinea and a shocking kiss, Hermia finds...
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On receipt of a desperate letter, demure young beauty Romara Shaldon rushes to the aid of her distressed sister Caryl, who has run away with the disreputable and cruel Sir Harvey Wychbold, who not only mistreats her, but also refuses to marry her when he finds she is with child.
After a violent confrontation that leaves her bloodied and bruised, Romara is 'rescued' and taken to the next door home of Lord Ravenscar where, in her concussed, semi-conscious...
17) Love Comes West
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When beautiful nineteen-year-old Roberta's beloved father, the Earl of Wentworth, dies, she is left alone and bereft in North Africa.
Now she must travel to America to live with her aunt, Lady Margaret. On finally arriving, she is dismayed to find that she has died, her preacher husband has disappeared and that a cruel local Minister lives there instead, savagely mistreating Lady Margaret's young adopted son, Danny
When the Minister dies of a heart...
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When her irresponsible brother rents the family home, Langston Manor, for the duration of the Royal Ascot races to Valient, Earl of Trevarnon and his wild gentleman friends, lonely and innocent young Demelza is afraid. Although married to a woman who has lost her mind and is in an asylum, Trevarnon is a well-known 'ladies' man' - and, for her own safety and modesty, Demelza agrees to hide among The Manor's maze of secret passages. As she watches,...
19) Journey To love
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Shana, the beautiful daughter of Lord Hallam has not yet been a debutante as she has been helping her father write his autobiography.
Although retired from the Foreign Office, Lord Hallam agrees to go abroad leaving his daughter alone in the country.
Before he leaves he asks Shana to run an errand to the landlord of the village inn known as the Rose and Crown, where she finds there is a crisis in the kitchen and offers to cook luncheon for the Marquis...
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Small and slight with fair hair the color of Spring sunshine and china-blue eyes, young Tilda is dismayed that by command of Queen Victoria, because of her Royal connections, she is to marry the Prince of a distant country called Obernia.
Not only has she never met the Prince, she does not want to marry him, as she wishes to marry for love one day and certainly not for political convenience.
In Munich on her way to meet her Prince, Tilda insists on...
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