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The beautiful Ilena Foringham not only helped her father, who was a senior Member of Parliament, with his speeches but she also assisted Lord Witherington with his. She had always found him a tremendous bore, but when he eventually proposed marriage to her she knew that this was something that she could not bear and that she could never be happy with him. As Ilena realised that her parents also wanted her to marry Lord Witherington, she knew that she had no option but to run away.

Tauchen Sie ein in die rosarote Welt der Romantik - in eine Welt mit schönen Heldinnen, bösartigen Grafen, edlen englischen Adelskreisen und einer guten Portion Liebe, die letztendlich doch immer siegt und den Hörern den Genuss eines Happy Ends beschert. Barbara Cartland ist die erfolgreichste Autorin für Liebesgeschichten aller Zeiten. Diese Sammlung beinhaltet die Hörbücher: "Weiße Lilie", "Liebe unter fremdem Himmel", "Ein Fremder kam vorbei", "Liebe unterm Tropenmond".

Major Michael Moore has been playing a very dangerous part in the Great Game in India where he foils a plot to kill the Viceroy who tells Michael he is now a marked man and that he must return to England immediately. To his astonishment on his way home he reads in a newspaper that following the death of his grandfather he has become the Duke of Grangemoore.

The beautiful Ariana Dancer is orphaned and has led a cheerless life in London with her disagreeable Guardian, Uncle Konstantin Bardici. He has shown little interest in his niece and she has been left very much to her own devices. One day Uncle Konstantin suggests that Ariana marry an Albanian Prince - one who is seeking an English wife and who claims to have fallen in love with her portrait - and it does not take much to persuade her to agree.

Horrified at the thought of facing an arranged marriage, Valda runs away from her home in the beautiful French countryside. Determined to become a photographer, she heads to the south of France in the company of a Romani caravan. Learning about their way of life makes her question everything she has been raised to believe. A disastrous run-in with an arrogant and handsome stranger sends her plans awry. She is once again awakened to the possibility of a life of adventure, passion and if she dares believe it, true love.

The Marquis of Darincourt who is the greatest matrimonial catch in the Beau Monde decides at last that he will get married and has chosen Lady Charlotte Warde to be his wife. He has been pursued for years by every debutante and ambitious mother, but he has, however, preferred the sophisticated married women who amuse him with their provocative wit and attractions. He is a hero from the war with Napoleon and the Duke Wellington had twice awarded him the Gold Medal for Bravery.

When Madelina Winston, a beautiful American heiress, arrives in England, she has at first only one thought on her mind, to try and trace her late father’s English family. Her stepmother, Mrs. Winston, has other ideas. Madelina might have beauty and a fortune, but as far as Mrs. Winston is concerned she lacks the crowning glory of life, an English title. Mrs. Winston knows that there are many impoverished aristocrats hoping to marry money and wastes no time in setting about finding a likely candidate for Madelina’s hand.

Hertigen lämnar Paris i all hast, endast medföljd av sin sekreterare och förtrogne Pierre de Bethune. Hans mor, hertiginnan de Savigne, ska ligga för döden i sitt slott i Loiredalen och hon har en sista önskan. Hon vill att Aristide ska bli lycklig, hon vill att han ska gifta sig och motvilligt går han på hennes begäran. Men vem är villig att ge sin dotter åt den välbeställde men skandalomsusade unge hertigen? Ökänd i huvudstadskretsar, hetlevrad och omgiven av kvinnor - Aristane är illusionslös när det gäller kärlek.

The beautiful Belinda Lanwick has not attended the dinner party given by her cousin as she is still in mourning following the death of her beloved father. However, when the guests were leaving, she saw Lord Ian Cheddington and thought him exceedingly handsome. She knew that he was one of the most sought after young men in London and was considered the most eligible bachelor in the Social world. It is then that she overhears an indiscreet conversation between her cousin and a Countess.

The beautiful Vanessa Shotworth was being made extremely unhappy at the way she was being treated by her stepmother while her beloved father was away in India with his Regiment. When she was late for breakfast because she had been out riding on a lovely summer’s morning, she was humiliated by her stepmother by being told to scrub the kitchen floor or she will not be given anything to eat. Vanessa then decided to run away to her relatives in the North of England, having elicited the help of the faithful family butler, Bates.

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.

¿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.

Queen’s Ford, seat of the Forde family for centuries, is crumbling into ruin. Devastated by their reduced circumstances, handsome and bored Jeremy Forcombe is determined to find a solution. He persuades his sister, Mariota, to go along with his outlandish plan to masquerade as highwaymen. Things go awry when they meet their match in their victim and there is an accident with a gun. Now the handsome Earl of Buckenham is injured, and the siblings are praying for his recovery – to save them from the gallows, and perhaps so much more.

The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken at the loss of both her beloved parents. After the Earl of Dinsdale’s death, her mother had married again to William Walker, a rich businessman who is cynically seeking to improve his standing socially to help his financial interests to make him even richer. And now Diana is all alone except for her grasping stepfather.

Yola has the perfect life as a countess– blessed with grace, wealth and intellect. But one day her life is turned upside down when she is promised in marriage to a man she despises. Known for his socialite status, she’s sure he’s only after her prestige and wealth. Yola sets out on a secret mission to see if this suitor will fall for her in disguise, and whether this marriage could be true love.

El fascinante mundo de la aristocracia esconde mucho más que poder, riqueza y elegancia. Las apariencias engañan y el juego está a punto de comenzar."Duques y duquesas" es una selecta recopilación de novelas de la indiscutible reina del romance, Barbara Cartland.En estas historias nuestros personajes tratan de sobrevivir en un entorno lleno de intrigas y secretos, donde el amor verdadero debe luchar contra la desconfianza y las falsas identidades: ¿es posible que el marqués, conocido por su crueldad y extravagancia, sea el mismo desconocido que la salvó en el accidente?

The lovely red-haired eighteen year old Lady Viola Francis is orphaned. She and her fortune are in the power of her stepfather, the sinister Sir Rudolph Vane. Violas late father, the Earl of Galhampton, was passionately interested in motor cars and from an early age Viola worked with him on his engines. Now she wants to fulfil his ambition to build one that can be sold to the growing numbers of people keen to acquire this new and expensive form of transport. Sir Rudolph, however, has other plans for her and her fortune and wants her to marry the ineffectual Lord Carncross.

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Since her mother passed away, Gisela and her celebrated musician father have been left destitute. Now desperate, they arrive in Vienna, where they are certain they will find her father work. After getting lost in the woods at night, Gisela is rescued from a rabble of rowdy students by a mysterious stranger. A stolen kiss under the cover of darkness and Gisela finds herself enraptured. When it comes to light that her stranger is the head of a proud and noble family, her humble origins as the daughter of an impoverished violinist become a hindrance to their match.

El Duque de Strathvegon tenía que encontrar una salida. George Wallington había descubierto el romance que mantenía con su esposa y amenazaba con matarlo. En tales circunstancias, a la madre del Duque se le ocurrió una solución: su hijo debía salir de Londres y anunciar su compromiso matrimonial para evitar el escándalo. Con este fin decidió dar una gran fiesta en su Castillo de Escocia e invitó a tres jóvenes casaderas más bellas de Londres para que el Duque tomase a una de ellas por esposa.