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When the Duke of Barningforde was told by his second son, Alastair, that he had married an actress in Paris without his approval, he exiled Alastair from England with only a very small allowance. His wife, Grace, actually came from a good Scottish family and was not an actress, but had a very fine soprano voice and sang with a famous French orchestra. But the Duke would not listen and Alastair and Grace never again set foot in their homeland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

¿Puede el amor verdadero triunfar cuando el destino de la corona y del país descansa sobre tus hombros? Esta selecta recopilación de novelas de la indiscutible reina del romance, Barbara Cartland, están dispuestas a demostrar que sí, aunque los personajes que las protagonizan no lo tendrán nada fácil. Ya sea una joven reina abrumada por los asuntos de Estado y las amenazas de las intrigas que lo último que espera es enamorarse o una princesa atrapada por la responsabilidad y el destino de un matrimonio arreglado; el amor puede florecer incluso en las circunstancias más difíciles.

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.

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.

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.

Depois de terem deslizado pelo mais belo salão de Viena, ao som de uma valsa sensual, o Czar a beijara! Wanda não podia acreditar. Ser beijada pelo Imperador de todas as Rússias, um homem casado e com uma amante! Wanda precisava fugir desse amor perigoso e impuro que começava a nascer em seu inocente coração. Mas como poderia escapar? O Príncipe Metternich a obrigara a ser espiã, pelo bem de sua pátria. Wanda teria coragem, porém, de trair o Czar, esse nobre fascinante que a tinha subjugado, acendendo em seu corpo jovem, a inesperada chama de um delicioso e quase sublime prazer?

Amanda Burke, filha de um vigário, tinha pouco contato com outros homens. Mas tudo isso muda no dia em que ela cuidava de seu jardim e o dissoluto Lorde Ravenscar, ao vislumbrar sua beleza fascinante, decidiu que ela deveria ser sua mulher. Enquanto a família da jovem fica surpresa, mas satisfeita, com essa proposta de casamento repentina, a doce Amanda está horrorizada! Jamais ela poderia compartilhar o resto de seus dias com um homem tão desprezível. Quando menos esperava, Amanda se apaixona pelo gentil Peter Harvey, um estranho misterioso que se refugia no jardim de seu pai.

Lady Caroline Faye, é a mais recente bela debutante, de maior sucesso da última temporada social de Londres. O inescrupuloso sir Montagu Reversby, ardilosamente, convence-a a ir de carruagem com ele, de Londres a Sevenoaks. Sob o pretexto de existir um defeito no eixo da carruagem, os dois param em uma estalagem, no campo. Horrorizada, lady Caroline compreende que sir Montagu afinal simulou o acidente apenas para passar a noite com ela.

Nerina, bela e jovem órfã, fica horrorizada ao descobrir que o seu tio e tutor quer obrigar a sua estimada prima, Elizabeth, a casar por conveniência com o desdenhoso, belo e rico Sir Rupert Wroth. Entretanto, Elizabeth ficara secretamente noiva do homem que ama verdadeiramente, e a leal Nerina aproveita a semelhança que tem com a prima, para se fazer passar pela noiva de Lord Wroth, permitindo que Elizabeth fuja com o seu amado Capitão Adrian Butler.

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?

O baile à fantasia estava no auge. De repente, todos os olhares se voltaram para a porta, por onde um cavalo negro acabava de entrar. Nele vinha montada uma mulher completamente nua! Seus cabelos, de um ruivo dourado, caíam até abaixo da cintura e seus olhos verdes, enormes, tinham um brilho divertido e desafiador. Não usava máscara e nem era preciso, pois todos sabiam que só a extravagante Lady Lorinda se atreveria a tanto. "Uma verdadeira tigresa", pensavam os homens, cobiçosos.

De criada a Rainha! Xênia Sandon não passava de uma dama de companhia quando entrou no trem, mas o destino preparou-lhe uma surpresa! A pobre jovem esbarrou-se com Johanna Xênia, uma nobre prima distante. Que surpresa quando percebem que são idênticas e possuem o mesmo nome! A prima estava noiva e de casamento marcado com o Rei da Lituânia, mas seu coração pertencia a outro. Angustiada para rever seu grande amor, Johanna implorou a Xênia que ela tomasse o seu lugar, apenas por uma semana... Assustada com a proposta, mas de bom coração, ela aceitou sem pensar nas consequências.

Era um sofrimento atroz para Clara Kilcraig! Seu pai, o Chefe de uma das mais poderosas famílias da Escócia, obrigou-a a casar com o Duque de Strathnarn, a fim de unificar os Clãs, com o objetivo de garantir uma paz duradoura, pondo fim às lutas sangrentas que abalavam as terras da Escócia há muitos anos. Clara, sepultava em sofrimento, os sonhos de amor da sua juventude, casando-se com um orgulhoso Nobre, por ordem de seu pai, e por conseguinte o pai de Clara, também pouparia a vida do sobrinho do Duque, que estava cativo por sua ordem.

Lady Evelin era rica, bonita e apaixonada. Noiva do nobre Robert Broadmoor, ela logo iria se casar e teria tudo o que sempre sonhou. Que desilusão quando descobre que seu noivo quer se unir a ela não por amor, mas por dinheiro! Evelin resolve fugir para se esconder dos mexericos e cicatrizar sua desilusão. Decidida a não revelar sua identidade, a jovem se apresenta como a simples Sra. Winters e começa a trabalhar na mansão do duque de Castleforde.

Durante o carnaval mascarado de Veneza, todos são anônimos. Apesar da euforia contagiante, o Marquês de Melford já estava entediado e a festa começava a incomodá-lo. No meio daquele desfile alegre e vibrante, eis que surge Catarina, uma dama de olhos tristonhos que despertam a curiosidade do Marquês. Por trás da máscara, Catarina fala docemente das saudades que sente da Inglaterra, mas o Marquês só consegue pensar em seus lábios desejáveis e na doçura de seu temperamento. Após uma conversa cativante, a dama logo desaparece das vistas do Marquês, mas permanece em seu coração.