Барбара Картленд
Список книг автора Барбара КартлендImperial Splendour
In St. Petersburg on a mission to glean intelligence for the Prime Minister on the likely intentions of Czar Alexander with regard to the ongoing war in which both Russia and the UK are at war with Napoleon's France, the dashing and eminently eligible bachelor Duke of Welminster is beset by diplomatic problems. The War aside, there is the issue the Princess who is pressing upon him the attractions of her daughter Tania. At thirty-three, the handsome Duke has vowed never to marry but has no choice but to agree to meet the young woman. But when he does, he finds Tania dancing with another young girl called Zoia. This other girl seems to him 'as if she moves amongst trees covered with blossom and the whole world awakens with spring'. Instantly he is entranced. Then when he discovers she is the daughter of famous French composer Pierre Vallon and she plays for him, he is utterly smitten. But after he suffers a near-fatal injury and Zoia and her father are forced to flee the city or die, it seems that love is doomed by War.
This Is Love
When her chaise is damaged in an accident far from her home, the beautiful young Lady Athina Ling has no choice but to stay at a nearby Posting inn while awaiting its repair. There she is appalled to hear the pitiful screams of a young boy who is being savagely beaten by the 'gentleman' who appears to be his Guardian. After bravely going to the child's rescue, Athina discovers that he is Peter, the nephew of the handsome Marquis of Rockingdale whose estate neighbours her own and that he, Peter, is the heir to a very considerable fortune. Seeing the child's horrific wounds, the Marquis agrees to help Athina protect and look after him – but he also needs her help with a great problem of his own. Namely that he must become engaged to be married before Queen Victoria will allow him to take up the important position of State he craves of the Master of the Horse. Which the Marquis is superbly qualified to excel at as he has been closely involved with the breeding and training of horses all his life. So to help protect the boy, Athina agrees to a pretend engagement to the Marquis to satisfy the demands of the Queen. But the threat is far worse than either of them could ever have imagined. As they strive together to save the boy from his murderous stepfather, they begin to realise that their engagement is no longer a pretence and that, in fact, this is love!
Never Forget Love
The lovely young Nerissa Stanley, her brother, Harry, and their father, a distinguished academic writer on Elizabethan architecture live a threadbare existence in their family home. So when her beautiful elder sister, Delphine, pays a surprise visit to her and Harry and then offers them a large sum of money, they have no option but to accept. Delphine, who abandoned the family several years earlier to marry the rich elderly Lord Bramwell is now widowed they learn for the first time. But she is now set on marrying another rich and prestigious aristocrat – the imperious and handsome Duke of Lynchester. Ashamed of their meagre lifestyle, she demands that her siblings pose as cook and butler in return for three hundred pounds, while she entertains the Duke in style in her ancestral home. But, after the superb dinner is over, the Duke wanders into the kitchen unexpectedly and, instantly transfixed by the beauty, grace and charm of Nerissa, insists that the whole family joins his house party at his magnificent stately house, Lyn, which is not too far away. There Nerissa discovers the secret curse of the Lynchester Dukes that they will never be happy once they inherit the title and then, through her special perspicacity and a vivid dream, when she talks to the ghost of a long dead Duchess, she puts the curse to rest. The Duke's heart is now set forever on Nerissa and he risks life itself and their future happiness in a cunning but perilous gamble when both of their hearts are at stake.
Anschlag Auf Die Liebe
Der gutaussehende und begehrte Herzog von Oswestry läuft Gefahr von der ebenso schönen wie hinterlistigen Lady Marlene eingefangen zu werden, von der er sich gerade nach einer ungestümen Liebesaffäre getrennt hat. Indem sie vorgibt, ein Kind von ihm zu erwarten, will sie ihn vor den Altar schleppen oder, so droht sie, sie wird einen Skandal heraufbeschwören, etwas das er niemals akzeptieren könnte. Obwohl er bisher immer geschworen hatte, niemals zu heiraten, erscheint es ihm jetzt unausweichlich – bis ihn ein schönes junges Mädchen vor seiner Haustür anfleht, ihr auf der Flucht vor einem teuflischen Plan zu helfen…
Love at The Ritz
After her father the Earl of Cuttesdale suffers a riding injury, his lovely young daughter Lady Vilma accompanies him to Paris, where they are to stay at a friend's Rue St. Honoré home while he receives treatment from a Parisian expert. Because he is a proud man the Earl wants no one to know he is temporarily disabled – so they travel under one of their lesser-known names, calling themselves Colonel and Miss Crawshaw. To Vilma's astonishment the celebrated hotelier Cezar Ritz arrives at their door with a strange request – to borrow some of the house's chandeliers for the hotel. After agreeing to help him, Vilma soon finds herself at The Ritz, where she has an unpleasant encounter with an over-amorous French Comte – and is rescued by a dashing Englishman: the Marquis of Lynworth. Assuming that Vilma is a lowly electrician's assistant, the Marquis is nevertheless taken with her – and soon he is escorting her around Paris, introducing her to all the sights, the restaurants and sophisticated society. And although the handsome Marquis has all London's Society ladies, not to mention the Cocottes of Paris, at his feet – and despite the fact that his mother has promised his hand in marriage to Princess Helgie of Whitenberg – he finds himself bewitched with Vilma. For her part, she too is deeply in love – but how can she tell him now that everything he knows about her is a lie?
Love comes to the Castle
The brooding and haughty, handsome yet strangely haunted Earl, Lord of all he surveys in an ancient Lincolnshire castle with its dungeons, priest holes and dark secrets…
The forlorn young beauty, grief-stricken and alone in an exotic flower-filled villa in sun-kissed Sorrento…
Spiel der Herzen
Die vornehme Gesellschaft Europas, die sich jeden Sommer im eleganten Kurort Baden-Baden ein Stelldichein gibt, ist fasziniert von der reinen Schönheit und dem natürlichen Charme von Selina. Vor allem die Männer verwöhnen sie mit Komplimenten und aufwendigen Blumengeschenken. Endlich kann Selina die schrecklichen Erlebnisse, die hinter ihr liegen, vergessen. Sie lässt sich aber nicht von dem Glanz der Salons und der Ballsäle betören, sondern schenkt ihr Herz dem Berufsspieler Quintus Tiverton, der sie vor der Gefahr schützt, in unehrenhafte Liaisons verstrickt zu werden. Auch er kann sich ihrem Liebreiz nicht entziehen…
Geliebter Wildfang
Malvina Maulton ist attraktiv, stürmisch – und die reichste junge Dame in England. Als herzlose Erbin bekannt, zieht es Malvina vor mit ihrem geistreichen Nachbarn auf dem Lande, Lord Flore, herum zu argumentieren, während sie heiratslustige Jünglinge abwimmelt. Tatsächlich ist Malvina entschlossen ihrem verarmten Freund eine gehorsame, scheue Erbin zum Heiraten zu finden, um ihm zu helfen seinen Familiensitz wiederherzustellen. Doch dann schlägt die Gefahr zu. Ein verzweifelter und brutaler Heiratskandidat entführt Malvina um sie zur Ehe zu zwingen. Nur die Liebe kann sie noch retten....
