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Love and the Loathsome Leopard

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 42,13 MB

Release : 2012-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782130519

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Tasked by the Prime Minister himself with bringing to justice the smuggling gangs that are rife around the Kent and Sussex coast, esteemed Napoleonic war hero Lord Cheriton is surprised to find a beautiful young girl called Wivina living in his dead and deeply hated father's supposedly vacant mansion. She has no idea who he is - and when he hears his reputation as a cold-hearted Lord who would turn her out without a qualm, he tells her he is just a passing friend... Nevertheless Wivina seems terrified by his presence - but why? Realising the entire village is at the mercy of a cut-throat gang and Wivina's prey to its murderous leader, Lord Cheriton endeavours to save the young beauty who's stolen his heart while accomplishing his mission to stop the smugglers once and for all. For the first time, he is fighting not for his country but for the love of his life - and the life of his love.



A New Look at Love

Author : Elaine Hatfield

Publisher : University Press of America

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 29,38 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780819149572

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This fascinating review of what social psychologists know about love, sex and intimacy puts to rest some tired clichés on the subject. Begins by asking "What is this thing called love?" and finds that people distinguish between two kinds of love, passionate love and companionate love. This study answers a variety of questions about love such as: Where is the best place to find someone to love? Do men and women want different things from love? How can couples make love last? Originally published by Addison-Wesley in 1978, it won the American Psychological Foundation National Media Award in 1979.



Love and Lucia

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 136 pages

File Size : 49,55 MB

Release : 2012-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782130470

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Even amid the genteel grandeur of Venice, the Marquis of Wynchcombe's ennui is undiminished. His fiery mistress Francesca, a beautiful and flamboyant Venetian actress, bores him almost as much as the company of the Beau Monde and royal acolyte with whom he associates. So when an impoverished but delicately alluring young Englishwoman - Lucia - accosts him at a caf and beseeches him to peruse the painting of her dying father, he is intrigued - more so when he realises that Lucia's father is a genius... But then he dies. Lucia is distraught and destitute but the Marquis saves her from penury by buying her father's every painting, promising to take her home to England. Enraged by her beau's apparent infatuation with the young ing nue, Francesca stabs him with a stiletto... But it's Lucia who has truly pierced his heart and stolen his soul - and just as the Marquis thinks she will be his forever, she delivers the heartbreaking words: 'Although I love you with all my heart I cannot be your wife...'



Love Is Invincible

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 26,86 MB

Release : 2018-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788670973

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When beautiful young Lucille Winterton meets an exceedingly good-looking and very elegantly dressed gentleman while out riding, she knows instantly that this must be the notorious Marquis of Shawforde. When the unpopular old Marquis had died the village folk, including the Wintertons, had hoped that the new Marquis would be more welcoming to them and evcn invite them to meet him at the Big House. They are disappointed, but worse still the village is alive with gossip about the new Marquis’s decadent parties involving drinking, depravity and other ‘high jinks’. Nevertheless the attraction between Lucille and the Marquis is irresistible and, although he is unwillingly promised to another, the pair share secret trysts until the Marquis asks Lucille to marry him even though her sister, Delia, strongly disapproves because his bad reputation could ruin hers. The Marquis’s uncle hears of their dalliance and arrives to intervene as in his view and the family’s Miss Winterton is not grand enough to be the new Marchioness of Shawforde. Mistaking her equally entrancing sister Delia for Lucille, Lord Kenyon Shaw becomes embroiled in a tangle of misunderstandings and, much worse, sinister intrigue. As The Great Game of international espionage in India almost brings death and destruction to their door, two brothers and two sisters prove beyond any doubt that Love really is Invincible.



Caught by Love

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 28,28 MB

Release : 2019-06-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788671937

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Famed for his horse racing successes on the turf and worshipped by London’s Society beauties, the dashingly handsome Marquis of Broome is unjustly renowned as heartless and selfish. So, when on a night time journey from London to his Surrey estate, he discovers a young stowaway hidden below his carriage seat, he appears to be angry and wants nothing to do with this new problem in his life. But when the ‘boy’ is revealed to be a feisty but very beautiful young girl, he quickly softens. Cara, as she reveals is her name, is running away. From what or from whom she will not confide in the Marquis. With highwaymen prowling the roads and revolution in the air, the Marquis cannot let this young innocent go on alone and defenceless to Paris, which is her intended destination. Despite her protests he rather reluctantly takes Cara under his wing, finding out eventually that she is fleeing a forced marriage arranged by her cruel and wicked uncle, the Earl of Matlock. Just as the Marquis saves her from her uncle, Cara saves him from a murderous revolutionary plot. And, as they manage to escape their enemies, they begin to realise that they have been caught by a deep and inspiring love for one another.



Love Is Heaven

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 13,89 MB

Release : 2019-07-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788672097

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Overworked and exhausted through caring for her ailing father, the demurely lovely Delysia Langford goes to the family’s London house for a well-deserved rest. But her wayward and beautiful sister, Fleur, has other ideas for her. She has fallen deeply in love with Timothy, Lord Sheldon, but he is already reluctantly engaged through intense pressure from his family to be married to the daughter of the Duke of Dorset. So Fleur and Tim plan to elope. And so determined is Tim’s uncle, the vastly rich Magnus Fane, a terrifying man people call the ‘Demon King’, to stop them that he kidnaps Fleur. Little does he know, it is actually Delysia who his servants have abducted from the London house by mistake. And when she is subjected to the contempt that Magnus Fane regards her sister with, Delysia resolves to keep up the pretence that she is Fleur so giving her sister time to run away to France with Tim to be married. And giving herself a chance to reverse the dreadful impression that he has formed of Fleur from reports by his relations. But when Delysia is confronted by the awe-inspiring and arrogant Demon King, he turns out to be an extremely handsome young man as well as a highly successful entrepreneur, having made his fortune in the East. And slowly but surely she is no longer held hostage, but simply following her heart as mutual hatred in some magical way turns out to be love.



The Castle Made for Love

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 32,96 MB

Release : 2013-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782133771

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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.



In The Arms of Love

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 26,9 MB

Release : 2018-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788670876

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Beautiful young Aspasia Stanton and her twin brother Jerry are horrified when they receive a letter addressed to their uncle and Guardian, the much-loved Reverend Theophilus Stanton, from Her Grace the Duchess of Grimstone. In it she coldly announces that that “having reached the age of sixty-five, you are retired from your Living and you will vacate the Vicarage within a month of this date.” Whatever are they to do? Without the Reverend’s stipend they will have nothing at all to live on and Jerry will be forced to leave Oxford University. And what of Little Medlock’s parishioners, who love their Vicar so dearly after all his years in their Parish? Although the Duchess is known by all the locals as a completely ruthless woman without a heart, Aspasia resolves to go to visit her and throw herself on her mercy, saying, ‘I will do – anything you ask of me if Uncle Theophilus may remain at Little Medlock.’ The poor innocent Aspasia has no grasp of the evil that goes on behind Grimstone House’s imposing doors or of the terrible things that the wicked Duchess will demand of her as her side of the bargain. But then Fate sends the imperious yet handsome Marquis of Thame to visit the Duchess, a gentleman unimpressed and undaunted by her disreputable and wicked ways. But will he step in to save Aspasia from utter humiliation and dishonour?



A Circus for Love

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 17,76 MB

Release : 2022-11-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788675959

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Fleeing her scheming stepmother and a forced marriage, beautiful young heiress Thelma Fernhurst stumbles across a magnificent house like the Fairy Palace of her dreams. More amazing still, in its grounds she finds a circus, complete with lions and tigers and a Big Top – and loses her heart to its dashing owner, the Earl of Merstone! But the runaway’s dream turns to a nightmare when Thelma discovers that the Earl has an evil, scheming relative of his own – and unless a trembling Thelma can save him from a ravenous tiger, the Circus of Love will turn to a Circus of Death!



Running Away to Love

Author : Barbara Cartland

Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

Page : 113 pages

File Size : 43,70 MB

Release : 2022-09-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1788673212

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For beautiful young Ivana her stepfather Keith Waring is no replacement for her much-missed father, the Honourable Hugo Sherard, who was killed in Spain fighting against Napoleon Bonaparte. Her stepfather is a spendthrift and he has gambled away virtually everything the family owns. Ivana’s hatred for her stepfather is doubled when, to her utter horror, she overhears him offering her as a ‘kept woman’ to the equally despised Lord Hanford for over five thousand pounds! Ivana runs away with her old Nanny acting as her chaperone and companion and applies for work through a Domestic Agency, where she is invited to apply for a post using her flawless Parisian French for the Earl of Lorimer, who is working in the War Office. Expecting a man to apply for the post, the imperious but handsome Earl is at first sceptical, but on realising that he knew her father, he soon warms to her, saying that he has a ‘difficult and dangerous mission for her!’ Ivana is to become a spy, working undercover against Napoleon’s secret agents. And so her perilous adventures begin. Very soon she loses her heart – and at every turn she risks losing her life. But the worst danger of all comes not from the wartime enemy but from the evil Lord Hanford who is still determined to possess her as he has already paid for her.