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The beautiful Lady Elva Chartham had returned to her family home in the country from her Season as a debutante as she had become disenchanted by the endless balls and empty-headed young suitors. She much preferred to be with her horses. Her father was away fishing and her beloved Aunt Violet came to coax her into returning to London to finish her Season. Elva was persuaded by Aunt Violet and in her London house, she overheard a conversation between her aunt and her cousin, the Duke of Sparkbrook, that would dramatically change her life.

Lady Novella Crownley has been teaching at a girl's school far from her ancestral home, Crownley Hall, and one day her mother asks her to return. She leaves at once only to find that so much has changed since her last visit home. Her beloved father, the Earl of Crownley, had died some years earlier, leaving her mother lonely and unable to cope on her own. Unknown to Novella her mother had remarried and the first time she met her new stepfather, Lord Buckton, she did like him at all.

Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her. Then a troupe of musicians, called "Bertie's Beauties", had an accident outside her gates and she found herself swept up in their fate as she took over from their injured pianist. Now one of the troupe, she went to perform at the Duke of Westbury's castle, never suspecting that the Duke would turn out to be the young man she had met for a few dramatic moments many years before. To hide her identity she allowed him to see her only when she was masked.

Vanda Sudbury and Robert, the Earl of Cunningham, had been friends from childhood. They knew all each other's faults and weaknesses and squabbled like brother and sister. So when her father tried to force a marriage between them, they were equally horrified. Fond though he was of Vanda, Robert was sure he could never love such a forceful, strong-minded female. She was equally dismissive of him as a husband.

The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society - Locadi, Lady Marshall and when her husband died unexpectedly, the Marquis set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he wished to avoid any gossip arising about their liaison. After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate. Then he began to suspect that Locadi was using black magic to entice him to her and to induce him to propose marriage.

Charles, Lord Hartley, was at his wits end. He had spent a fortune on his cousin John, and still the embittered John demanded more money. Charles knew he needed an heiress and he became swiftley attracted to Cliona, who had recently moved in to the neighbourhood. He did not know that she was an heiress. When he found out, he felt there was no way that he could approach her with honour. But Cliona, a spirited girl, had her own ideas.

Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages. While she was in France she learned that he had died and she must now take over his business. But she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage. For a while she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great rival, the Earl of Kennington.

Returning from finishing school in France, Louisa Hatton was full of enthusiasm for the life ahead. She was convinced it would be exciting and romantic. But her parents had already planned a very suitable marriage for her to Lord Westbridge, their new neighbour. He was a cold, hard man and he wanted Louisa despite her protests. Her parents would not support her. Her father owed Lord Westbridge money.

Eugenia Dovedale's father had been High Steward to the Marquis of Buckbury and after her father's unexpected death, Eugenia had to leave "Paragon" the family's beautiful and much loved cottage on the estate. She and her mother now lived uncomfortably with her Great-Aunt Cloris in London as they could not afford anywhere else. Mrs Dovedale maintained strong hopes of her daughter making a good marriage and improving their position.

Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage. Michael fled to his dilapidated ancestral castle for the first time since inheriting his title. There he heard a girl singing and fell in love. She was Bettina, daughter of an eccentric Major, a genius with gardens plants and herbs. Determined to put the castle gardens in good order, Michael hired the Major and found himself becoming more and more enchanted with Bettina.

Lord Milton should have been a happy man, with an ancient title and a magnificent estate. But he was deep in debt and haunted by memories of the Crimea, where he had once been a soldier and taken part of the Charge of the Light Brigade. To take his mind off the past, he eagerly accepted the suggestion of a friend to become the manager of a hotel in Brighton, called the Paradise Hotel. He was seeking new discoveries, but he could not have guessed how startling his discoveries were going to be.

"How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!" When the beautiful Lucia Mountford's mother remarries less than a year after her father's death on the Titanic, she is shocked when the family's fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes ill. Deeply in debt, her stepfather borrows a considerable sum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton.

Marianne Daventry würde alles dafür geben, der Langweile in Bath zu entkommen. Deswegen zögert sie nicht, als sie eine Einladung von ihrer Zwillingsschwester Cecily erhält, sie auf dem Landsitz Edenbrooke zu besuchen. Marianne hofft, dort in aller Ruhe entspannen zu können, während ihre Schwester den attraktiven Erben von Edenbrooke umwirbt - doch als sie dem unfreundlichen, aber äußerst gut aussehenden Sir Philip in die Arme läuft, wird ihr klar, dass man manche Dinge einfach nicht planen kann.

Prinzessin Laetitia möchte ihre Cousine, Prinzessin Stephanie, vor einer von ihrer Großtante arrangierten Heirat mit dem König von Zvotana retten. Denn Stephanie ist in ihren Bruder Kyril verliebt. Doch Laetitia und ihre Familie sind selbst von der Gnade der Großtante abhängig, da ihr Vater früh verstorben ist. Sie muss also vorsichtig sein. Da fällt ihr ein, dass die Zigeuner, deren Blut auch in ihren Adern fließt, vielleicht mit einem Zauber helfen könnten.

Als Lord Sheldons Mund in der Bibliothek ihres Onkels den ihren berührte, war sich Azalea nur des wütenden Feuers auf seinen Lippen und des Pulsierens ihres Körpers bewusst. Wie konnte sie ihm je das furchtbare Geheimnis anvertrauen, das ihr Leben überschattete? In einer Geschichte vor dem Hintergrund des exotischen Hongkong des 19. Jahrhunderts wird für Azalea die Grausamkeit ihres Onkels unerträglich.

Im Alter von 16 Jahren entflieht der Herzog von Strathnarn dem altmodischen Schottland nach London. Jahre später führt ihn sein Weg zurück ins Hochland. Bei seiner Ankunft im Familiensitz muss er erkennen, dass sein Neffe vom Clan der Kilcraig als Geisel gehalten wird. Das Oberhaupt des Clans stellt eine einzige Bedingung zur Freilassung: Der Herzog muss seine Tochter heiraten. Wird sich der Herzog für eine Zukunft in Schottland entscheiden?

Nach einer leidvollen Ehe mit seiner ersten Frau ist Noble Britton entschlossen, nicht noch einmal denselben Fehler zu begehen. Er sucht nach einer ruhigen, sittsamen Frau, die keine Skandale verursacht. Zu der hübschen Halbamerikanerin Gillian Leigh fühlt er sich sofort hingezogen.

Sie sind wie Sonne und Mond - von heißblütiger Natur Thalestris, Königin der Amazonen, Isis, ihre Freundin seit Kindertagen, geheimnisvoll und besonnen. Die weisen Frauen haben der jungen Königin vorausgesagt, dass unter ihrer Führung das Volk der Großen Mutter zu seiner einstigen Größe und Stärke zurückfinden wird; und die temperamentvolle Thalestris meint, bereits den Weg erkannt zu haben, den die Große Mutter für sie vorgesehen hat.

Der seinerzeit skandalumwitterte, größtenteils autobiographische Roman eines Siebzehnjährigen: Der fünfzehnjährige François liebt die achtzehnjährige Marthe, die jedoch einem Soldaten versprochen ist und diesen schließlich auch heiratet. Doch als ihr Mann im Ersten Weltkrieg an der Front kämpft, lässt sie sich auf eine Affäre mit ihrem jungen Verehrer ein, obwohl die Beziehung keine Zukunft hat. Als der Soldat aus dem Krieg zurückkehrt, endet die Beziehung. Doch Marthe ist schwanger von François.

Betörende Düfte und zwei starke Schwestern. Schon als kleines Mädchen ist Maria Carstens fasziniert von den Parfüms der feinen Hamburger Damen. Und so versprechen sie und ihre Schwester Anna sich, eines Tages ihre eigene Parfümerie zu eröffnen. Doch während der Vater die beiden tatkräftig unterstützt, sabotiert die ängstliche Mutter das Vorhaben ihrer Töchter.