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Allons au grand bazar couvert, Buck, je veux que vous m'offriez une zibeline ! Le duc de Buckminster est loin d'être aussi enthousiaste que sa maîtresse, la jolie Dolly de Chatham. Quitter son yacht luxueux amarré sur le Bosphore pour écumer les souks de Constantinople ? Très peu pour lui ! D'ailleurs, depuis la Grande Guerre, il n'a que de mauvais souvenirs dans cette ville. Mais puisque Dolly insiste... Il ne sait pas encore que l'aventure l'attend dans les ruelles de la Perle de l'Orient. Quatre aristocrates russes sont poursuivis par les bolcheviks, et lui, l'ancien soldat risque-tout qui souffre de son oisiveté dorée, va déployer tous ses talents pour les aider à fuir. Mais pourquoi cette haine brûlante dans les yeux de la séduisante princesse Militsa chaque fois que leurs regards se croisent ?

Exhausted by his success as a playwright and tormented by the persistent love of two women, Randal Gray goes to the South of France to recover from his exhaustion. But his privacy is invaded by DArcy Forest, one-time actor and rascal and his green-eyed waif of a daughter. As Randal returns to London for the rehearsals of his new play, the plane he is piloting crashes and DArcy is killed.Now the unofficial guardian to DArcy child, Sorella, Randals return is further complicated as he is torn between his glamorous leading Lady, Lucille Lund, and the elegant socialitethe Hon. Jane Crake. As rehearsals of his new play start to unravel, Randal is entangled and besieged with worry and doubt. What was he seeking this passionate pilgrim, as he travelled the difficult path to success? How Randal finds answers and solace from an unexpected person, how he disentangles himself from the chains of success that bind him, and how he finds the happiness and the peace he has searched for, are all told in this captivating and beautifully told story by Barbara Cartland.

The Earl of Rochester is as notorious as his 17th Century namesake, enjoying the pleasures of London society and the trappings of his riches. When visiting the fascinating, but married, Circe Langstone he accidentally meets her stepdaughter, Ophelia. Clearly frightened in her surroundings he begins to wonder what could have upset her so, until a chance encounter a few days later, reveals all. What she tells him starts a train of events that nearly kills her and leads the Earl to hide her away on his country estate. Furious at losing her stepdaughter, Circe, whom the Earl has nicknamed The Serpent of Satan calls on the forces of black magic to get her back. How the Earl thwarts the evil stepmother, how he saves Ophelia from a fate worse than death and how he finds true happiness are all told in this thrilling tale by Barbara Cartland.

Seit seiner Ruckkehr aus dem Krieg und nach der Verabschiedung von seinem Regiment, fuhrt der gutaussehende Marquis von Troon ein aufregendes Leben in der Londoner Gesellschaft und unterhalt auch einige Liebschaften. Nach einem waghalsigen Pferderennen auf seinem Herrensitz des Marquis auf dem Land, verstirbt Sir Charles Lingfield plotzlich und hinterlasst ein Testament, in dem er den Marquis zum Vormund seiner einzigen Tochter macht. Valeta lebte nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter alleine mit ihrem Vater in der Nachbarschaft des Marquis. Mit ihren Weltanschauungen veranlasst das hubsche junge Madchen den Marquis die Welt mit anderen Augen zu sehen. Uble Machenschaften sind im Gange - werden der Marquis und Valeta diese gut uberstehen oder wird Lionel, der Bruder des Marquis, den Triumph davontragen?

Valeda, die jungste Tochter Sir Roderick Alcesters, lebte nach dem Tod der Mutter lange Zeit mit dem Vater allein im Herrenhaus, das sie nach seinem Ableben - trotz aller finanziellen Schwierigkeiten - so gut wie moglich alleine weiter verwaltet. Ihre sehr schone altere Schwester Hermoine wurde nach ihrer Hochzeit die Countess of Eltsley, die Ballkonigin der Londoner Gesellschaft. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes ist sie sehr reich, aber sie will weiter in den sozialen Schichten aufsteigen und sucht einen geeigneten Kandidaten. Diesen findet sie im gutaussehenden und reichen Marquis de Silvala. Um ihn fur sich zu gewinnen, will sie mit ihrer jungen Tochter Mirabelle nach Madrid reisen. Da die Gouvernante ihrer Tochter sehr kurz vor der Abreise gekundigt hat, uberredet sie ihre Schwester Valeda unter falschem Namen mitzureisen. Valeda trifft in Madrid nicht nur den Marquis de Silvala, sondern auch Konig Alfonso XI. und dessen Gemahlin.Valeda erfreut sich an Madrids Kunstschatzen und besichtigt mit Mirabelle den Prado, wo die beiden auch die Jungfrau mit Kind von Luis de Morales sehen. Der Marquis trifft dort auf die beiden Englanderinnen und bemerkt, dass Valeda der Jungfrau sehr ahnlichsieht. Wird Hermoine ihr Ziel erreichen, und den Titel der Marquesa de Silvala tragen?

The impoverished daughter of a renowned artist, Vanessa was making ends meet by restoring the delicate miniatures that her father was so famous for. Whilst travelling to a commission she is saved from the clutches of the odious Sir Julius Stone by the dashing, but confirmed batchelor, the Marquis of Ruckford. Ruckford is quite taken by Vanessas exquisite beauty and resolves to help and protect her in any way he can as he said, "lovely women often quite unconsciously court danger". As his words come true and Vanessa foils a Napoleonic plot, he realises his protection has turned into something more. But the Marquis has no plans for marriage. Torn between love and a shameful proposal Vanessa must make a choice. What she chooses and how this changes both their lives, are told in this beautifully visual story, set in Georgian London.

O charmoso Marques de Ruckley estava com um tal ataque de raiva, que correu velozmente com os seus cavalos pelo campo da sua propriedade, ia com tanta velocidade. que no se apercebeu da jovem que se atravessou no seu caminho. Abalroou-a levemente e ela acabou por cair inanimada, mais pelo susto do que pelo acidente, que no lhe causou nenhuma leso Muito aliviado por ela estar viva, o Marques carregou a bela jovem ate um de seus quartos de hospedes. Quando ela recuperou a consciencia na manh seguinte, Ruckley descobriu que a jovem era uma cigana. O infeliz acidente poderia acabar por ser afinal um golpe de sorte, ja que na vespera, no seu habitual convivio social num clube de Londres, o Marques havia apostado que poderia converter uma jovem comum, numa dama da sociedade. A cigana era encantadora e inteligente, perfeita para a personificaço. Que maneira facil de ganhar mil libras! Mas o Marques no esperava o que lhe iria acontecer, pois no tinha apostado apaixonar-se perdidamente pela sua bela impostora

Too beautiful and too enchanting not to attract the young man her cousin charlotte hoped to marry Melinda felt only withering hatred from the family that had taken her in. Penniless and therefore of no consequence, she would be married off to the highest bidder a lecherous old friend of her uncles. After a brutal beating, she had no choice but to flee to the callousness and terrors of Victorian London and into the clutches of a seemingly kindly woman who offered her lodgings for the night. Drugged and locked in, she then receives a fantastic offer of five hundred guineas to pretend to marry the notorious Marquis of Chard. How Melinda accepts this extraordinary proposal, how she is shocked by the Marquis and his friends and how she saves his life, is all told in this thrilling and passionate romance.

Desperate to escape her fate, Kamala runs away from her brutal uncle who was to force her into a marriage with an even more brutal man of sixty. On her way to Southampton she meets a stranger, but after a hunting accident she nurses him back to health, which is the beginning of a series of adventures for them both. An audacious plan sees them boarding a ship destined for Mexico. But when they arrive, they have to face the deadly threats of a Spanish Don who has set his sights on only one prize Set in 1839, this thrilling tale across land and sea charters their exciting but dangerous journey, before their mutual bravery and love takes them to paradise.