BARBARA CARTLAND

Al recibir una carta desesperada de su hermana, la bella joven Romara Shaldon se apresura a ayudar su angustiada hermana Caryl, que se habia escapado del despreciable y cruel Sir Harvey Wychbold, a quien no solo la maltratava, sino que tambien se niega a casarse con ella, sabiendo que esta se encuentra embarazada. Despues de una confrontacion violenta que la deja ensangrentada y magullada, Romara es rescatada y llevada a la casa de al lado de Lord Ravenscar y donde, en su estado de conmocion y semiconsciente, se encuentra en una extraña situacion. Esta casada con su Señoria. Por muy terrible que haya sido su comportamiento, la mirada deslumbrante de Trent Ravenscar y la nobleza roban el corazon de Romara mientras que ella intenta rescatar a su herida hermana, pero justo cuando Romara se da cuenta de que ama al extraño que es ahora su esposo, un terrible incidente de disparos la obliga a huir y dejar detras toda la esperanza de poder vivir un verdadero amor inesperado

Después de la muerte de Lady Meridale, el Marqués de Meridale tuvo de ausentarse de su Castillo para luchar en el regimiento contra Napoleón y después quedándose al servicio del Príncipe Regente en Carlton House estuvo ausente durante 8 años. El Castillo de Meridale estaba ahora casi en ruinas, en mal estado y descuidado por los sirvientes que lo estaban pasando mal y ademas habia una atmosfera de miedo. Todos fueron afectados. Arabella habia sido enviada al Castillo como compañia de Lady Beulah Belmont, la hija del Marques, una niña con una enfermedad psicologica, y Arabella misma, se estaba escapando de la brutalidad de su padrastro. Recien recuperada de la escarlatina, estaba en un estado palido y delgado, cuando el Marques regreso al Castillo, y se dio cuenta de la belleza de la joven y lo cuanto sus vidas estaban amenazadas. Arabella a pesar de todo, pudo descubrir el secreto del Marques. Ella se vio enfrentando a la muerte y al amor enfrentando tambien a sus propios sentimientos, pues el Marques ocultaba un secreto, que le impedia de casarse con Lady Sybil, la hermosa rival de Arabella o con cualquier otra mujer. ¿Sera que el verdadero amor salvaria la vida del Marques?

Shortly after the death of her father, the Earl of Weir, the stunningly beautiful Lady Arletta is penniless, having been ousted from the family estate by her cousin, who has now inherited everything from her father. Desperate to escape the misery of her situation, she is heartened to hear that her close friend, Jane Turner, is to be married very soon to the new Bishop of Jamaica. The trouble is that at the same time she had agreed to travel to France to be the Governess to the children of the Duc de Sauterres late brother and to teach them English.Jane is in a serious quandary as she cannot possibly let her fiancee down nor can she disappoint her new employer, the Duc.But Arletta has dreamed up a solution for them both. So that Jane is free to get married, Arletta will travel to the Ducs Dordogne Chateau posing as Jane!On arrival at the enchanting Chateau, she finds the Duc as surly and rude as he is handsome. Worse still he hates the English and she struggles to win him over while resisting the attentions of the Ducs dashing but sinister cousin, the Comte, who has a very doubtful reputation locally. And soon, despite herself, Arletta finds herself losing her heart to the haughty Frenchman who despises everything she stands for. And who, surely, can never feel anything for her but contempt?

Claudia Anderson nunca hubiera imaginado que su padre, el actor Walter Wilton, fallecido junto a su esposa en el incendio de un teatro, fuera realmente un noble escocés. Una vez conocida su verdadera identidad por la boca de su madrina, Claudia viaja con ella hasta España, pero por el camino, antes de llegar a su destino, la dama muere en un accidente. Claudia, se vio sola y sin dinero. Encadenada en una posada española, la muchacha conocio al Marques de Datchford y acepta un plan desesperado para poder salir de su apuro. Ella se hara pasar por la esposa del esplendido Marques de Datchford, para salvarlo de una alianza organizada por su anfitrion español y ambos se trasladaron a Sevilla. El Marques cree que Claudia siendo la hija de un aclamado actor, es capaz de interpretar el papel de una dama de calidad. ¡Lo que el apuesto compañero no puede sospechar, es que la encantadora huerfana es de noble nacimiento y alli cuando menos lo esperaban, nacia el amor, pero las circunstancias iban a obligar a Claudia a tener que escapar del Marques! ¡Pero el verdadero amor siempre prevalecera, y los verdaderos corazones se rinden siempre a su feliz destino!

Travelling alone to France to take up her position as governess to the Duc de Valmonts grandson, beautiful young Larisa Stanton receives dire warnings about the childs father. Keep away from Comte Raoul de Valmonte, they say. For Monsieur le Diable, (the devil), is handsome, wickedly charming, and utterly irresistible to women. Sure enough, at Chateau Valmont Larisa finds herself in a seething cauldron of violent passions, wickedness, and murderous intent. Is it possible to fall in love with a man known as the devil, she asks herself? With Comte Raouls life at stake, Larisa, and Monsieur le Diable are about to find outIf you like Bridgerton you will love Barbara Cartland.

Sunny Naples is dark in the shadow of death as typhoid decimates its people, including the father lovely young Forella Claye adored with all her heart Fleeing for her life, she arrives, forlorn, at her aunt and uncles London house. Horrified to find they mean to offload her in marriage by hook or by crook, she flees again this time on a horse from the stable of the impossibly handsome Hungarian Prince Janos Kovac. With the Prince hot on her heels, she gallops to faster and faster to freedom until finally Forella is captured And so is her heart.

Saska, das einzige Kind aus der glucklichen Liebesheirat zwischen Lady Margaret Lang, der einzigen Tochter des zweiten Marquis von Langworth mit dem mittellosen Vikar Mervyn Waverley ist eine sehr schone und intelligente junge Dame, die seit dem Tod der Mutter von der adeligen Verwandtschaft zuruckgewiesen wird, da diese die Entscheidung der Mutter nie verstanden hatte. Saskas Kusine, Lady Deirdre Lang, uberredet Saska, an ihrer statt nach Schottland zu ihrem Verlobten den sehr reichen Duke von Silchester auf Strathconna Castle zu reisen, um ihm Gesellschaft zu leisten und zu versorgen, da dieser durch einen Jagdunfall erblindet ist und genesen soll. Deirdre selbst will Partys besuchen, die ihr zu Ehren gehalten werden.Saksa stimmt zu, um etwaige Folgen, die ihren Vater betreffen konnten zu vermeiden. Deirdre stattet Saksa mit herrlichen Kleidern aus, die sie selbst nicht mehr braucht, da diese nichts dergleichen besitzt. Saska begibt sich mit der Eisenbahn nach Schottland, wo sie von Talbots Gromutter erwartet wird und herzlich empfangen wird. Kann Saska glaubhaft in die Rolle ihrer Kusine schlupfen und Talbot uberzeugen, dass seine Verlobte ihn am Krankenbett umsorgt? Kann sie ihn mit ihren Erkenntnissen der Heilkunde and gesunden Ernahrung zur Heilung verhelfen? Und wird das Licht der griechischen Gotter sie beide umhullen, so da sie die wahre Liebe erfahren durfen?

International intrigue. The terrifying threat of Russian invasion. A hurriedly arranged marriage, ordered by Queen Victoria, of a young British beauty to a Balkan Prince to prevent a Revolution orchestrated by the Russians. In a romantic adventure that resonates thrillingly today, lovely golden-haired Lady Gloria Winton is sent on a Battleship to a faraway land to marry a man shes never met and who, already, she hates intensely. But can her hate turn to love as together they flee the murderous Russians?

That sardonic curl of the lip, chiselled features to die for, that roguish glint in the eye Notorious ladies man Lord Rowley has always had beauties falling at his feet. But none loves him more than auburn-haired Darcia, his lovely seventeen-year-old daughter.So shes thrilled to be home at last Not so thrilled that hes sending her to France posing as a French Comtesse so that shes untainted by his roguish reputation.But headstrong Darcia has other ideas. Posing as a decorator, she follows her heart into the home and the arms of the magnificent Earl of Kirkhampton, whom she has adored from since childhood, to find her Fate. At last shes found the Perfection of Love but how can it be perfect if its based on a lie?

An astonishing tale of grand passion, intrigue and espionage in the heart of turn-of-20thcentury China a simmering cauldron of hatred and resentment of foreigners that rises to the boil as the notorious Boxer rebels burn Christians and their Churches. Intrepid adventurer and acknowledged expert in Far Eastern affairs Major Stanton Ware puts his life on the line in a perilous undercover mission for his Prime Minister. But it is not fear that takes his breath away and steals his heart, it is his very first glimpse of Zivana, the young part-English, part-Russian, part-Manchu stunning beauty who is to be his mission partner!

Petula is young, breathtakingly beautiful and, after her fathers death, stricken with grief and with poverty as well. The family Manor is all but falling down, she is at the mercy of her dissolute loser of an uncle, who plans to sell her off in marriage and pocket the lions share of her dowry! Then Fate in the shape of a carriage crash brings a dashing Major to Petulas door.And so begins Petulas thrilling rollercoaster ride through the twists and turns of love.

When Queen Victoria, the Matchmaker of Europe decrees that beautiful young Zenka must marry King Myklos of Karanya she is horrified. Not only because shes 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, its said that he holds depraved orgies at his Castle in Karanya!But her Godfather the Duke of Stirling and his new, much younger Duchess, who is bitterly jealous of Zenkas beauty and Royal Blood, have accepted the Kings proposal on Zenkas behalf and insist theres no going back. She is trapped.But as Zenka journeys in the Karanyan Royal Train, towards her new life and loveless marriage in a foreign country, it seems Fate has come to taunt her in the shape of a charming stranger who appears under cover of darkness in her private carriage. A thief in the night, he steals a kiss that Zenka will never, ever forget.

"I have the privilege of being half-Scottish and for me Scotland is the most romantic country in the world.I admit to a number of Scottish admirers and indeed I married two Scotsmen.But for me nothing can compete with Scotlands rugged sweeping mountains, cascading waterfalls, the skirl of the bagpipes and the swirl of the kilt.Dream Castles and tall handsome Highlanders.Romance Heaven for the heart."Barbara Cartland The Books In this first book of Favourites are :1. The Little Pretender2. The Chieftain Without A Heart3. The Secret of The Glen4. The Duchess Disappeared5. Love Lifts the Curse6. The Call of The Highlands7. The Heart of The Clan8. The Curse of The Clan9. A Chieftain Finds Love10. The Scots Never Forget

After losing her mother to a fever, then her beloved father the Earl of Darrington and now her Godmother too, eighteen-year-old Ilita is bereft, stricken by poverty as well as grief. For a fleeting moment, shes saved when her aunt takes her in. But the Countess is, to Ilitas horror, bitter, jealous of her beauty and ashamed to be associated with her. Sent away to work for a recently blinded Marchioness under a false name and ordered never to reveal her true identity, she meets her employers son, the Marquis of Lyss. Hes surly and sarcastic, suspecting shes a gold-digger. If only she could explain who she really is! Little by little, though, Ilitas perceptive spirit, kindness and beauty begin to melt his cold, hard heart. Is it possible that their mutual mistrust is turning to love?