Download or read book The Wicked Marquis written by Barbara Cartland and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dog A Horse and A Heart written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is bad enough that the beautiful Manella’s heartless uncle is threatening to sell her adorable English Setter, Flash and her beloved horse, Heron. But when he dashes all her hopes and dreams with a forced marriage to an aging, decrepit but rich Duke, she flees astride Heron with Flash at her heels to a rural village where she finds employment as the Marquis of Buckingdon’s cook. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, she is embroiled first in a wicked poison plot and then highway robbery And, as her trusty animals save the day and the dashing Marquis saves her life, Manella realises that she has now lost her heart.

Download or read book Desire of the Heart written by Barbara Cartland and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1969 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love in the Dark written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although her vast inheritance seemed a blessing, it has become a curse now that Susanna Laven’s mother is determined to marry her against her will to the impoverished Duke of Southampton. What’s worse that as her mother repeatedly and cruelly tells her, she is the family’s “ugly duckling” her only attraction is her fortune! Desperate to escape a loveless marriage, she responds to an advertisement for a reader in French and Italian for a temporarily blind gentleman. Meeting the gentleman, a Mr. Dunblane, who is swathed head to toe in bandages after a terrible motor car accident, she finds him rude and short-tempered, but still accepts and soon finds herself on a luxury train speeding across France on its journey to Florence. There Susanna’s eyes are opened to the glories of Florence – and love! to She had prayed to God to give her love, and in the blossoming relationship with her blind employer, who himself seems entranced by her, she may have found it. But it’s an agony, not a joy – for surely it will end the moment Mr Dunblane’s eyes are healed and he sees that she is not the beauty of his mind’s eye’s vision! Love in the Dark is the story of two people being blind in different ways – and of how love turns an ugly duckling into a swan with her evening knowing!

Download or read book The Race For Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All her young life has been lived in the shadow of her father’s disgrace after he was caught cheating at cards at his Club in London and Alita Lang lives a dismal life under sufferance with her begrudging aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Langstone. In fact the only love in Alita’s lonely life is her passion for her uncle’s thoroughbred horses, especially her beloved stallion, Flamingo, who she has taught many tricks to. She spends most of her time in the Duke’s stables and can train the most unruly horse And now the Duke, desperate to raise money, is determined to sell them all to the brash American multi-millionaire who has just bought the neighbouring estate and its magnificent Marshfield House. Introduced to the handsome, blue-eyed and tanned Clint Wilbur as Alita Blair, an employee of the estate, she soon finds herself working for him on improvements to his stables and soon, through his consistent kindness and gentle thoughtfulness, she discovers an alluring new side to her new employer and ally. Suddenly Alita’s heart is racing as she realises that she is in love. But surely the race for love is already lost because the Duke is already scheming for his daughter, Hermione, to marry the eligible millionaire and join their two estates together.

Download or read book The Magnificent Marriage written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Lady Lettice Burne is outstandingly beautiful with fair hair like sunshine and a flawless pink-and-white complexion. Yet her father, the Earl of Alderburne, desperate to find a wealthy suitor for her to pay off his mountain of accumulated debts is, resigned to the fact that she is, immature, and empty-headed, and therefore, unlikely to make the brilliant marriage that he had envisaged for her. So when, the handsome, dashing and rich Maximus Kirby expresses interest in her hand, the Earl is eager to send her to join him in Singapore. Maximus Kirby has been hugely successful in the Far East in trading and has started many profitable businesses that have brought unexpected prosperity to many poor communities. Lettice cannot possibly go to him in Singapore alone. So her sister Lady Dorinda goes, posing as her companion, albeit reluctantly, knowing that she is assuming her usual guise of 'ugly sister' thanks to the disfiguring eczema on her face and body that she has suffered from since childhood. To Dorinda's delight and astonishment, the tropical climate miraculously cures her skin complaint and now everybody can see that she is every bit as beautiful as Lettice, including Maximus Kirby. Once in Singapore Dorinda and Lettice face great dangers, which Maximus Kirby and Dorinda have to defeat and Lettice becomes more and more determined that she will, not marry Maximus Kirby. And, will Lady Dorinda finally find the love and the 'Magnificent Marriage' that her disease has always denied her?

Download or read book The Little Pretender written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1750 Scotland, 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. The plan is for Iona 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. Her native wit and steel nerves do not fail her – but almost instantly, on meeting the imperious Duke, it's her heart that lets her down. She's fallen deeply, hopelessly in love! Traitor or not, surely the Duke could never love the Little Pretender who was sent only to ensnare him?

Download or read book A Gentlemen In Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a rash argument in White’s Club, Sir Denzil Caversham is embroiled in a duel, which ends in his accidentally killing his foe, a well-known member of Society, and he is forced into exile for three years in America.His absence leaves his ailing wife impoverished, so their beautiful daughter, Thalia, decides to rescue the family by working at a fashionable milliner’s shop serving the tastes of the ladies of London’s Beau Monde.Under the assumed name of ‘Thalia Carver’, she catches the eye of the dashing and handsome Earl of Hellingham, who is instantly determined to make her his mistress and offers her endless inducements and she refuses them all.The Earl has no idea who Thalia really is, nor that she is the anonymous author of a provocative book poking fun at the ‘English Gentleman’ that is the talk of the Social World and all the Gentleman’s Clubs of St. James’s.At first appalled by the Earl’s advances, Thalia is soon irresistibly drawn by his magnificent magnetism and his underlying tenderness.But, as love blossoms in her heart, she knows that it can never be.The Earl must never find out the true identity of the milliner’s work girl who has stolen his heart.

Download or read book Love Climbs In written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impulsive and rakish Marquis of Troon is due to be married to the disreputable but passionate Lady Dilys Powick in direct opposition to the wishes and advice of his closest friends. The Marquis then goes ahead and arranges a spectacular steeplechase with large prizes for the winners in order to celebrate his nuptials. When one of the contestants dies unexpectedly of a heart attack, the Marquis is stunned to discover that he has been named in his will as the Guardian of the contestant’s daughter, the sensible and charitable Valeta Lingfield, who is also very beautiful. An encounter at the Marquis’s superb stately home with a mistreated climbing boy tests the unlikely relationship between Valeta and the Marquis as she is determined to look after the boy until he can be returned safely to his parents. And further conflict, intrigue and danger follow a meeting with the villainous sweep, who is from a notorious criminal area of London. Will the lovely Valeta return safely from London? Who is behind these treacherous kidnappings? And will the Marquis ever change his ways? The answers can be found in this excitingand poignant story set in the Regency.

Download or read book The Romance of Food written by Barbara Cartland and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Became Theirs written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the ball that was to change her life, Rona Trafford danced with a mysterious Harlequin.She learned that this prospective suitor was being unfaithful to another, and so fled to Paris, taking up a job as a governess. Her employer's brother joined them. Unknown to her, he was concealing a dramatic secret, one that threatened to destroy them both. How they confronted danger, and how Rona learned more about the Harlequin, is told in this exciting romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Download or read book The Cross of Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the Earl to marry his daughter. There is something sinister about Mr. Wyngate, also another man who looks mysteriously like him, and seems to come and go without warning. In the end, one man lies dead and another's heart is broken before Rena's faith and courage triumph. How it all happens is told in this exciting and romantic novel."

Download or read book We Danced All Night written by Barbara Cartland and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1970 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular romance author recounts her experiences back in the 1920s, when life was carefree

Download or read book The Unknown Heart written by Barbara Cartland and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impetuous Duchess written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 218 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 Jabina's father - 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 - 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 Best of Barbara Cartland written by Barbara Cartland and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bored Bridegroom written by Barbara Cartland and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquis of Merlyn is bored by his young wife, Lucretia, who sets out to win his affection. Lucretia discovers something about him which leads to a desperate flight across France, pursued by Bonaparte's soldiers.