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Barbara Cartland a conquis des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde et écrit plus de 700 romans où l'amour triomphe toujours. Nous sommes invités chez le Duc de Lyndbrooke. Je vous conseille de rester modeste et de vous faire oublier, mademoiselle ! Ce sermon n'étonne pas Katrina Darley. Sa tante, jalouse de sa fraicheur, l'a toujours détestée. De toute façon, Katrina n'a nullement l'intention de faire son intéressante. Pourtant, elle va découvrir au château de Lyndbrooke un univers de luxe enchanteur. Quant au propriétaire, il est beau comme un Dieu.

Netta Musketts romaner för läsaren tillbaka till efterkrigstidens England och är fyllda med kärlek, intriger och passion. Den första kärleken fylla en person med både extas och smärta. För Gail Redding medförde hennes första kärlek en kombination av de två och det verkade som om hon aldrig skulle kunna kasta av sig det förflutnas bojor. Till slut bestämmer hon sig för att lämna England och besöka vänner i Västafrika. Hon blir förälskad för andra gången i sitt liv, den här gången i en man med integritet, en säkerhetsofficer. Men hon bär på en hemlighet, som hennes man aldrig skulle kunna förlåta.

La splendida Sona McCarron e suo padre tornano nella loro amata Scozia come ospiti del Duca di Invercarron, il capo del clan. L'occasione è il matrimonio del figlio ed erede del clan, il Marchese di Inver, con la figlia di un vicino capoclan. Mentre cerca di evitare le attenzioni indesiderate dell'avido Torquil McCarron, Sona incontra il marchese. In poco tempo e contro le proprie migliori intenzioni, si ritroverà perdutamente innamorata di un uomo promesso a un'altra donna.

Lord Waincliffe breaks his horse’s bridle out one day and calls at the nearest house for help so that he can ride home in safety. It belongs to Terence Stourton, a Professor of Literature, and he meets his daughter, Rosetta, who repairs the bridle for him. Not only does he think that Rosetta is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, but he feels there is something unusual about her. Only when he returns home, does he realise that she bears an extraordinary resemblance to his sister, Dolina.

The Earl of Wentworth has a fiery and unpredictable temper and is about to fight a duel in Hyde Park with a Frenchman who has insulted him, when he is restrained by his friend, Sir Thomas Babbington, and a helpful Policeman. At the same time the beautiful Temia Brandon is returning home from her Finishing School in France and is longing to see her horse, Lightning, again. Temia discovers that her father has been hiding a dark secret for many years and is now being blackmailed by the odious Lord Alphonse who threatens to reveal the secret and ruin the family’s reputation.

Scotland, 1750, just four years after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Rising of the Clans, it’s hard to know who’s loyal to the English and who is faithful to the Stuarts. And it’s beautiful seventeen-year-old Iona’s perilous mission to ascertain whether the Duke of Arkrae, head of Scotland’s most powerful clan, is a traitor or is he in cahoots with the English. Iona’s mission is to gain the trust of the Duke and his clan by claiming to be the sister he thought to have died as a child. As all around her doubt her claim and call her a "pretender", Iona struggles to hold her nerve.

Queen Victoria sends for the Duke of Sherbourne and asks him to undertake a very secret mission on her behalf. It is so secret that only his loyal valet is told. The Duke agrees and it takes him to Greece. He visits King George who is the same age as he is and whom he has known in the past. He has been a great success as King, although he was only eighteen when he took over the throne and he is married to Princess Olga of Russia and they are extremely happy. The Duke envies them and, although he has been pursued by a great number of beautiful women in London, he has never yet fallen in love.

After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour had not been available during the war, The Hall, which goes back to Tudor times, was badly in need of repair, while the farms on his extensive estate were untenanted and the fields unploughed. The Earl had unwisely brought back with him a French Comtesse who was very beautiful and possessive and was obviously determined that he should marry her.

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 she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she glimpses in the mirror at the dressmakers, a glorious vision clad in rose-pink silk?

Princess Zelda of Brienz in Switzerland is being harassed by her father to marry a King or Prince of one of the small countries of Europe. Zelda is very beautiful and determined when she does marry it will be for love and only love and she cannot possibly fall in love with any of her father’s suitors. She runs away from her home to her cousin, Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, who has always been very fond of her. She tells him that she is determined to find out the truth about a scandal that has been repeated ever since she was born.

Beautiful Lady Lucilla Welton is all alone in the world, having lost both her parents in a tragic accident. She has nowhere to go and so she stays with her cruel and distant Aunt Maud, who wants to marry her off as soon as possible. An ardent suitor is at hand – the rich Texan, Harkness Jackson – but his proposal is not one Lucilla could ever contemplate. She has already met the only man who will ever find the key to her heart – but the handsome Marquis of Castlebury is enthralled by another and for him, Lucilla seems to be no more than a casual friend.

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 realises it is her last chance of getting Twi-Twi to England, she slips aboard the yacht and hides in one of the empty cabins.

Die junge Lizzie hat ihre Heimat auf dem Land verlassen, um im quirligen London der 1960er Jahre eine Ausbildung als Köchin zu beginnen. Sie ist entschlossen, ihre neue Freiheit zu genießen, auch wenn sie weiß, dass ihre Mutter bereits nach geeigneten Heiratskandidaten sucht und Pläne für Lizzies Hochzeit schmiedet. Bald trägt Lizzie ihr Haar modisch kurz und ist mit ihren Freundinnen Alexandra und Meg in ein prächtiges, wenn auch heruntergekommenes Haus im mondänen Belgravia gezogen.

Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city.

I tre säsonger har Lady Margery Quennel agerat panelhöna. Med undantag för Charles, markisen av Edgecombe, den enda man som brytt sig om att dansa med henne och som hon inte ens tycker om, har Lady Margery ingenting med män att göra. Nu vid 23 års ålder är hon uttråkad till det yttersta och bestämmer sig för att återvända hem till Chelmswood, men den trygghet hon söker finns inte att hitta. Hennes en gång så stiliga far har nämligen tagit en nittonårig flicka till brud, och denna verkar fast besluten att slösa bort hela faderns förmögenhet.

Il duca di Brockenhurst, ormai annoiato dall'alta società e indifferente nei confronti delle donne che continuano a presentarsi davanti a lui nel disperato tentativo di diventare la sua consorte, decide di dare una scossa alla propria vita e accetta la scommessa di andare da Londra a York da solo e in incognito, mischiandosi tra la gente comune. Sarà proprio durante una delle sue soste che farà la conoscenza di Valora Melford, una bellissima ragazza orfana di padre, ora sotto la custodia della matrigna, che la vuole dare in sposa al dissoluto Sir Mortimer.

"Hon vände sig om och flämtade till, för där, på en magnifik, svart hingst, satt en man som såg ut just som hon alltid hade föreställt sig djävulen. Hon betraktade hans ansikte, som var tilldragande men utan tvekan cyniskt och desillusionerat, hans mörka ögon, vars spefulla glimt underströks av hans höjda ögonbryn, och den höga cylinderhatten som satt lätt på sned på hans mörkhåriga huvud och tycktes utgöra en passande ersättning för den gloria som han en gång hade varit i besittning av." Anita Lavenham hade precis deltagit i en kyrklig mässa.

Solvejg – eine Wikingerin auf der Flucht. Solvejg ist eine junge Wikingerin. Ihr Vater, König Harald Schönhaar, glaubt, von seiner toten Frau verzaubert worden zu sein, und gibt seiner Tochter die Schuld daran. Solvejg muss fliehen. In Männerkleidern heuert sie bei fremden Wikingern an, die auf einen Raubzug nach Irland wollen. Doch die Norweger werden besiegt, und sie wird eingekerkert – zusammen mit Dhoire, einem Druiden, der sich mit Magie und Mathematik befasst und der sie in einer Nacht verführt.

Die schottischen Highlands im Jahre 1481: Sir Lucas Murray ist Schreckliches widerfahren – nun ist er zurückgekehrt, um Rache zu nehmen an dem Clan, der ihm seine Ehre nahm... und an Lady Katherine, die er liebte, bis sie ihn grausam verriet.

Unfairly dismissed from her role as a governess after her lecherous employer forces himself upon her, Druscilla Morley is determined to keep her head down. Dressing drably to hide her beauty, she is surprised to find an old acquaintance staying with her new family. Valdo, Lord Marquis of Lynche, is handsome, charming and an absolute rogue. It soon becomes clear that he is having an affair with the lady of the house and proposes a marriage of convenience to Druscilla to cover his tracks.