Barbara Cartland
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Armastuse otsingul
Vanda Sudbury ja Cunninghami krahv olid lapsepõlvesõbrad. Nad tundsid kõiki üksteise vigu ja puudusi ning nääklesid omavahel nagu vend ja õde ikka.
Seepärast olid nad mõlemad võrdselt kohkunud, kui tütarlapse isa püüdis sundida neid omavahel abielluma.
Kuigi Robert oli Vandasse kiindunud, oli ta kindel, et ei hakkaks iialgi armastama sellist jõulist, kindlameelset naist. Vanda oli temast kui abikaasast sama madalal arvamusel.
Nad põgenesid koos, reisides kõigepealt Prantsusmaale, et näha suurt Pariisi maailmanäitust ja ronida alles hiljuti valmis ehitatud Eiffeli torni…
O Duque e a Filha do Reverendo
O reverendo Aaron Galvine abandonou luxo e riqueza e, com sua filha Bianca, se dedicou à ajuda e conversão de humildes camponeses e homens fora-da-lei. Pobremente vestidos, alimentando-se mal, dormindo ao relento ou em precários celeiros, pai e filha começaram a sofrer as agruras da miséria. Foi nessa condição de penúria que o duque de Kingswood encontrou Bianca e seu agonizante pai. Condoído, levou a moca e o pastor para seu castelo. Bianca achava que o duque era um anjo vindo do céu… Mas logo ela iria descobrir que anjos não exigem o amor e a pureza de uma jovem inocente
A Kiss In Rome
Left penniless and alone after her parents' sudden deaths, beautiful young Alina Langley is desperate to earn some money to pay off their debts when, quite out of the blue, her friend the glamorous Denise Sedgewick, arrives at her home from London in a smart carriage. Now a famous Society beauty she has come to ask Alina for help. The man Denise loves has gone to Rome, upset after Denise deliberately made him jealous at a party and Denise is desperate to follow him and win him back. Her plan is to travel with her cousin, Lord Teverton, who is on a special Diplomatic mission for the Prime Minister, but her father will not let her go without a proper chaperone. Since there is no one else she can really trust, she persuades Alina to pretend to be her mother, Lady Langley. Dressed as a sophisticated woman of nearly forty when she is just twenty, Alina meets the unfriendly but handsome Lord Teverton, who is instantly entranced by her. The trouble is, so is the persistently amorous Prince Alberto Borghese, who pursues Alina with considerable determination and cunning. And when Lord Teverton comes not once but twice to her rescue, Alina realises that she has fallen completely in love with him, but how can she explain that she is not the woman of the world she pretends to be but a simple girl who has never before been kissed?
Lovers In Paradise
Beautiful young Roxana Barclay cannot bear to see her wealthy widowed mother, Lady Barclay, marry a raffish fortune-seeker five years her junior. And so she flees to join her Dutch aunt and uncle, who are Missionaries, on their voyage to Bali in the East Indies. Matters are complicated further when Roxana discovers en route that her aunt is with child. Tragically her aunt dies of a fever after the difficult birth of her son, Karel, and then her grief-stricken uncle is found dead too, struck down Roxana is convinced by a Black Magic curse. Terrified of the colonial Dutch authorities, who would force Karel into an orphanage if they discovered his existence, Roxana entrusts him for safekeeping to a Balinese family. To her horror the repellent overweight Dutch Governor takes a predatory interest in her, making it clear that if she refuses to become his mistress he will have her imprisoned or she will be thrown of the Island of Bali. Which she become so attached to. Worse still the Governor introduces her to a dashing new arrival, Count Viktor van Haan, who also takes a keen interest in her and her beautiful wood carvings, which express so much of her and her attitude to life. But soon Roxana is surprised to find herself confiding in this handsome stranger and the Count is equally surprised to find that he has fallen in love!
Lights, Laughter and a Lady
All alone and penniless after the unexpected death of her much-loved father, the lovely but innocent Minella Clinton-Wood is desperate. But who can she turn to? Her Aunt Esther has made her reluctance clear, describing the idea of Minella living with her as 'a burden'. But then she finds a letter to her father from her slightly older friend, Connie, the local Parson's attractive daughter, thanking him for some mysterious kindness. "Someday perhaps I will be able to do something for you," Connie has written to him. Maybe, Minella thinks, Connie can help her. Arriving in London, she discovers that her friend is one of the famous Gaiety Theatre's exotic and flamboyant Gaiety Girls. And Connie immediately begs the demurely beautiful Minella to stand in for one of them who is ill at an exclusive party, which is given by the dashingly raffish and handsome Earl of Wynterborne at his sublimely impressive country home, Wyn Castle. Naively Minella agrees to the subterfuge – and soon finds herself dressed up to the nines in a decadent Social world beyond her experience as she has been brought up quietly in the country. Doubling the deception after the party is over, the Earl asks her to travel with him to Egypt, pretending to be the wife who had once betrayed and left him for another man. So Minella embarks on a voyage of discovery, deception and perhaps love.
