Download or read book No Escape from Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Armistice between France and England came to an end in 1803, Napoleon interned ten thousand British tourists who were in France at that time. Most of these tourists had committed no crime and had simply been travelling when captured. Many, to save being arrested went into hiding, among them the widow and daughter of Sir Edward Waltham, who had died that winter. A year later, plunged into poverty and the seedier side of Paris life, beautiful Vernita Waltham is keeping her sick mother precariously alive on the money she obtains from making exquisitely embroidered lingerie for a famous shop that supplies Napoleon's sister, Her Imperial Highness Princess Pauline Borghese. Vernita discovers the shop is cheating and desperate to raise money for food and medicine, decides to approach the Princess directly with a negligee she has just finished, disguised as a petite bourgeoisie. Extravagant and self-obsessed, Princess Pauline is enchanted with Vernita's skills as a needlewoman and convinced that the silk and lace creations will only enhance her reputation as the most beautiful woman in Paris. She immediately determines that Vernita must move to the Palace and join the legion of servants that already pander to her vanity. From that moment on Vernita is thrust into complications with the Princess's lover, handsome Count Axel de Storvik, and the all-powerful Emperor Napoleon himself. Unsure of whom to trust in a Palace filled with secret assignations and political intrigue, Vernita soon finds herself in a position that could ruin her reputation for ever. But how long can an English lady of quality remain hidden amongst the loyal family and servants of the enemy French Emperor? Terrified of discovery and fearful of the future, Vernita dreams of escape and a return to her home in England only to find an ally, waiting like a guiding star, in the most unlikely of places.
Download or read book The Ghost Who Fell in Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, though, through the old house's ancient peepholes, she sees another, very different, side to the notorious Nobleman. Suddenly one moonlit night, unde.
Download or read book Love Lies and Marriage written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teresa is everything her father Sir Hubert Bryan could wish for - clever, loyal and sharp-witted. The only problem is that she was born a girl and not the son he hoped would follow in his footsteps. But Teresa sees no reason why her gender should prevent her from being an asset to him in his mighty shipping empire, and tells him so. Sir Hubert is astounded at her request - he is far more concerned that his beautiful daughter will fall prey to the scavengers and fortune hunters amongst London Society. Having made his own vast fortune the hard way he is only too aware of what men will do to have access to the kind of wealth his lovely daughter will inherit. So when his dear friend the Marquess of Walstoke begs for help to prevent his heir Harry, the Earl of Lanbourne, making a disastrous marriage to a notorious actress he sees an opportunity to help his friend, and set a test of intelligence for his daughter too. Together, the two men hatch a plot to 'save' Harry from himself and prevent him from ruining his life. Promising her work in the family business, Teresa agrees to her father's pleas to play a central character in a daring deception. But Harry is not a fool, and astounded at his uncle's lack of faith in him he storms off to Bourne Hall, his family estate, taking Teresa with him. Teresa is torn; she loves her father but the longer she spends with Harry the more her loyalties are tested. Experiencing strange new feelings, she begins to have her own reasons to make sure that Harry puts the past behind him. But are these reciprocated? Or is Harry destined to shake the foundations of Society by making his flame-haired actress the new Countess of Lanbourne?
Download or read book Master Fan s Sweet Love No Escape written by Qing Tian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly, a low, hoarse male voice came from behind her. "You're leaving after you slept with me?""I'm sorry! I... I don't know!"Jiang Yunxi panicked and didn't know what to do. The only thing in her mind was to leave as soon as possible. She apologized subconsciously, ignored everything else, and charged forward recklessly.
Download or read book Desperate Defiance written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolated monasteries nestling in the peaks, precipices and giddying gorges of the snow-capped Himalayas… The filth-encrusted and lice-infested hovels of the native people… It’s all a far cry from the genteel sophistication she’s left behind in Monte Carlo. But as always, Vivian Carrow’s as defiant as she’s beautiful – and, nursing a broken heart, she’s determined to accompany her father on a perilous mission to Tibet. Faced with a haughtily handsome and arrogant Captain whom she suspects is a murdering spy, a lecherous, drug-crazed Indian prince and gangs of murderous monks, that defiance is tested to its limits – indeed almost to the death. Will Vivian plunge to an icy death in a mountain crevasse? Or fall into love with the man she so hated.
Download or read book The Outrageous Lady written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ê Society beauty Galatea, Ôthe outrageous Lady RoysdonÕ is the talk of the town, especially of the Social whirl that surrounds the Prince Regent when his Court arrives in the spring in the fashionable spa town of Brighton. ÊShe is a magnet for countless suitors, not least the over-amorous DÕArcy, the Earl of Sheringham, whose advances she repels unceasingly Ð for Galatea is a married woman, unwillingly wed to an older man who has been in a coma for years. ÊIn a rash attempt to flee the attentions of the Earl by travelling alone in her carriage, she is held up and robbed by a dashing highwayman, who leaves her without her jewels, but with an unforgettable kiss. Ê Then when her good friend, Lady Dorridge, comes to her with an appalling problem, Galatea has her most outrageous idea yet! ÊShe resolves to enlist the help of her handsome highwayman Ð a decision that sets her on a path to terrible danger, a thrilling swashbuckling adventure and the blossoming of a love more Heavenly than anything she has ever known before or could possibly imagine in her wildest dreams.
Download or read book The Impetuous Duchess written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the austere, reserved Drue, the Duke of Warminster, is asked by a servant at a Scottish posting inn if he will give a lift to a little old lady whose carriage has broken down, he reluctantly agrees. But then he is outraged to discover that the frail old lady is a young red-haired beauty called Jabina, who has run away from home and a marriage forced on her by her father. When their own carriage overturns, severely injuring the Duke, the pair are taken in by aristocratic friends of JabinaÕs father Ð and Jabina, terrified of being sent home, tells their hosts that she and Drue are married. The Duke is then appalled to find that through an obscure Scottish law he is now actually and legally married to this unruly and impulsive young girl. But, as they travel together to France and fall into mortal danger as Napoleon Bonaparte declares war on England, their mutual dislike blossoms into a burgeoning passion Ð the question now is whether they will ever to able to escape from France and return to England to fulfil their unspoken love.
Download or read book The Innocent Imposter written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her father is away from home, the beautiful but lonely Ursa Hollington is surprised to receive a visit from Penelope, her sister, who has been such a stranger since she married a rich Nobleman and moved to London.Ursa is even more surprised when she hears PenelopeÕs request!So Penelope can meet her lover in a secret tryst while her husband, Lord Brackley is abroad, Ursa reluctantly agrees to pretend to be Penelope and stay with Lord BrackleyÕs blind mother, the Dowager Lady BrackleyPowdered and rouged just like her coquettish sister, Ursa is accepted at the imposing Brackley Park.But then the dashing Marquis of Charnwood embroils her in yet another deception, posing as his fiance to save him from a loveless marriage to the daughter of a Greek he is doing business with.When the amorous Marquis appears at her bedside one night, Ursa is horrified, but soon finds the fluttering in her heart is not fear but love ÐTangled in not one but two falsehoods, she can see no way out, until it comes to light that the Dowager Lady Brackley is far more perceptive that she thought!Ê
Download or read book The Duchess Disappeared written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Angus McKeith knocks on the door, the lives of Fiona Windham and her niece and ward Mary-Rose are changed forever. Following the recent death of Fiona's father, Lord Ian Rannock, and sister, Rosemary, the child has become heir-presumptive to her Scottish uncle, the Duke of Strathrannock, who has summoned Mary-Rose to his castle in Scotland. Reluctantly complying, but insisting that she accompany Mary-Rose, Fiona finds the Duke handsome, yet distant and cold. Ostracised by the Highland community after the mysterious disappearance of his wife, the Duchess, and a bitter feud with his father, the Duke has withdrawn from Society and seems an insensitive, even brutal man. Soon, though, as Fiona's innocent beauty warms the Duke's cold heart and love between them blossoms. But when she attempts to solve the mystery that traps him in the past, Fiona finds herself in mortal danger at the hands of a woman possessed by a deranged desire for vengeance.
Download or read book Alone in Paris written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Disgraceful Duke written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent and lovely Shimona BardsleyÕs father, the celebrated actor Beau Bardsley, has fallen desperately ill and yet he insists on persevering with the eveningÕs performance as Hamlet at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. A concerned Shimona accompanies him to the theatre where she overhears the notoriously disreputable Duke of Ravenstone Ð known as ÔHis DisgraceÕ Ð offering her father the huge sum of five hundred guineas to find him an actress to play Ôa partÕ for just two nights. Desperate to raise enough money to take her father to a warmer clime and thereby save his life, Shimona accepts the DukeÕs offer and finds herself reluctantly embroiled in a deception that her conscience finds hard to bear. Unchaperoned in the grand Ravenstone House in London with the devilish Duke and an imperious Clan Chieftain, Shimona is afraid, alone and in trouble Ð But soon, to her bewilderment and ecstasy, she finds that she is also in love. Ê
Download or read book The Heart Of The Clan written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her father, Colonel Alister McCarron, asks her to accompany him to a family Wedding in the North of Scotland, the beautiful young Sona jumps at the chance, not just to meet her relatives in the venerable McCarron Clan but also to see the dashingly handsome Marquis of Inver, for it is he who is to be wed. Thrilled by the Fairytale grandeur of Invercarron Castle and her heart fluttering at the Marquis’s considerable charms, Sona is bemused to find that his fiancée is the extremely plain Lady Jean McBora. Then she overhears that he is being forced by his father to marry Lady Jean to reunite the squabbling McCarron and Borabol clans and to prevent him from marrying a London beauty who would not be suitable for a future Chieftain of the Clan. And too late to stop herself, she finds that she has fallen hopelessly in love with the Marquis. And he with her. But their love is doomed. First by his forthcoming marriage of convenience to Lady Jean and then again when the Marquis is charged with the murder of his bride-to-be, a crime that Sona knows in her heart of hearts that he did not commit.
Download or read book A Royal Rebuke written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊDashing Lord Victor Brooke has displeased his Godmother, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, with his latest indiscretion with one of her more attractive Ladies-in-Waiting and he is dismayed to find that his punishment means missing his beloved Social Season in London!Her Majesty orders him instead to escort the eighteen-year-old Princess Sydella to Zararis, where she is to marry King Stephan, who has requested an English bride so that his small nation will receive the British EmpireÕs protection against Russian incursions.Bored and embarrassed, Lord Victor passes off his chore as a Ôsecret missionÕ, but little does he know that his lie is soon to come true.As soon as they embark on a British Battleship, he is astounded to find himself captivated by the PrincessÕs beauty and her enchanting joie de vivre.And when he saves her from an assassinÕs bomb on their arrival at Zararis and then from certain death at sea, he wins her heart, as she has already won his.Yet no sooner than they find love, they know that all is lost Ð for Sydella is already committed to marry the King of Zararis Ð
Download or read book A Dream from the Night written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To afford the food and medicine her ailing mother needs, the beautiful Honourable Olinda Selwyn, daughter of the late Lord Selwyn, former Lord Chief Justice of England, is obliged to conceal her background to take employment with the Dowager Countess of Kelvedon as an expert embroiderer at the family stately home in Derbyshire.Taken aback to find that the ageing but still beautiful Countess is having a love affair with a dissolute young rake, Olinda sympathises with her estranged son, the Earl, who despises his mother for her loose morals.Drawn reluctantly into the Kelvedon family’s tangle of bitterness and resentment, Olinda finds herself gently advising the Earl – or as he puts it, inspiring him.But just as the love she has only ever dreamt of seems almost within her grasp, Kelvedon is rocked by a sudden and suspicious death – and, incredibly, the man she loves with all her heart stands accused.
Download or read book Lord Ravenscars Revenge written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ÔrescuedÕ and taken to the next door home of Lord Ravenscar where, in her concussed, semi-conscious state, she finds herself married to his Lordship as part of his crazy drunken ÔrevengeÕ on a Society beauty who has spurned him.Appalling as his behaviour has been, Trent RavenscarÕs dashing looks and Nobility steal RomaraÕs heart as he rescues her stricken sister Ð but just as Romara realises that she loves the stranger who is her husband, a terrible shooting incident forces her to flee and leave all hope of love behind ÐÊ
Download or read book Good or Bad written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their beloved Mama passed away, Amalita and Carolyn’s father, Sir Frederick Maulpin, could not bear living in the family home that reminded him so painfully of her. So he left his daughters behind for Paris, perhaps hoping to rediscover the raffish man-about-town he once was. To the girls’ chagrin, he immediately fell in love with and married a Frenchwoman called ‘Yvette’, whom his daughters considered vulgar and quite unsuitable for their adored Papa. Now, to their horror, they receive a letter informing them that their father and Yvette have drowned in a yachting accident in Nice. Not only have they lost their parents, now eighteen-year-old Carolyn has no one to present her to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace and chaperone her at debutante balls on which all her hopes are pinned. But her elder sister, Amalita, has a plan – A letter to her father’s old friend, the Marquis of Garlestone, secures an invitation to stay in exalted company, where Amalita, dressed as a far more mature woman, chaperones Carolyn in the guise of their stepmother, whom no one in London had ever met. And so their charade begins as, meeting the Marquis’s dashingly handsome son, the Earl of Garle, and his cousin, Timothy, they both become love-struck, but also hopelessly out of their depth and confounded by their own deceit –
Download or read book The Kiss Of Paris written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned as a young child, the beautiful young Sheena knows little of the English side of her family and has been brought up by her Irish uncle, Patrick O’Donovan, who never liked her father and who is passionate in his dislike of the English and everything to do with the EnglishAnd there is nothing that Sheena would not do for him as he is all the family she has ever really known.So when he asks her to journey to the Embassy of Mariposa in Paris to take up a job as a Governess to two small children and to pose as a widow several years older than her age of twenty-one, she complies with Patrick O’Donovan’s wishes despite quite a few misgivings.Once she has arrived in the exciting City of Paris she even begins to enjoy the strange adventure, particularly as there are two handsome gentlemen constantly in the Embassy who begin to show their interest in her.But soon she is trapped by her own web of deceit.Expected to spy on her employers and elicit sensitive information for her uncle’s shady associates, she finds herself falling hopelessly in love.But how can he ever love her when he discovers how she has deliberately deceived him?
