Barbara Cartland , Marie-Noëlle Tranchart - Vous êtes couvert de dettes, milord. Aussi ai-je jugé bon de louer le cottage de Highcliffe à un certain M. Drayton. Il a fait fortune aux États-Unis et je
Cleona Wickham, sheltered and excluded all her young life was going to Rome! Asked to accompany her childhood friend Lady Beryl to Italy, this unexpected change in her fortunes was to be an exciting adventure! Then a chance encounter with a stranger, who stole a kiss, changed everything as she discovered the man in question was none other than the fiance of her friend. Detesting the man, yet under his protection, the travelling party departed for Rome. For the first time in her young life Cleona was to discover the beauty and joy of Italy, but the journey was fraught with peril - would their trip end in the love and happiness she had always dreamed of, but never had - or would she fall prey to the many dangers that lay in her path?
She wasnt sad. Sad was the wrong word. Sadness did not capture the pain when a whole life had collapsed. Not sad. But broken, dazed and utterly forsaken even for misery.Home again after five years, in her quiet ancestral home in wartime England, Monas past comes back to her in poignant, agonizing memories, memories of an ecstatic, clandestine love affair. Despite her unhappiness, Mona affects everyone with whom she comes into contact. The parson, the doctor, the landgirl and Michael the local Squire, are all changed as if ignited by a living flame.How a woman from the past threatens to destroy Monas healing heart and expose the secret she thought was buried forever, and how through physical suffering she has a final chance of real happiness, are all told in this passionate and dramatic story by Barbara Cartland.
When the Dukes affair is discovered and he is challenged to a dual by the angry husband, he escapes to Scotland in search of a wife. The Dukes mother invites three society girls to a ball she has organised in their magnificent castle, one of which, she tells the Duke, he must choose as a bride. However the father of one of the girls refuses to send his only daughter, and hatches a plot to disgrace the Duke by sending instead his niece Yseulta, to whom he is bitterly unkind as her father had disgraced the family name. Dressed in a threadbare old black dress, Yseulta is distressed and frightened but happy to be far away from her abusive step-father, and soon falls in love with the beauty of the highlands, the home of her ancestors. But the beauty is tarnished as she discovers a starving family and then, as events turn against her, in desperation she tries to throw herself into the sea. In this beautifully told story, reminiscent of a fairy tale, we discover how love and kindness can truly conquer all.
Extremely poor and on the verge of starvation, Lady Milbanke makes a hasty decision to meet an old friend, the famous impresario Gustav Dessoff. To save herself and her daughter Carla from the poverty they had found themselves in, following the death of her husband, she agrees to go to Vienna with Gustav and sing in public at the fabulous Opera House. To keep the secret of their identity they assume different names and Carla is told on no account is she to reveal who she is, and that she must say she is a friend and a companion. Whilst Lady Milbanke is rehearsing at the Opera house, Carla first meets the unpleasant Baron Otto von Erhardt and later the handsome, but mysterious Rako. As Carlas mother becomes the toast of Vienna, she makes friends with Rako and he shows her the wonderous sights of Vienna.But unbeknown to her, the Baron has his sights on Carla, and Rako is not who he says he is. As events turn against Carla and she is placed in imminent danger, how she is saved and who steals her heart are all told in this wonderful tale of the magic of music and love.
Desperate to escape her fate, Kamala runs away from her brutal uncle who was to force her into a marriage with an even more brutal man of sixty. On her way to Southampton she meets a stranger, but after a hunting accident she nurses him back to health, which is the beginning of a series of adventures for them both. An audacious plan sees them boarding a ship destined for Mexico. But when they arrive, they have to face the deadly threats of a Spanish Don who has set his sights on only one prize Set in 1839, this thrilling tale across land and sea charters their exciting but dangerous journey, before their mutual bravery and love takes them to paradise.
Handsome heartbreaker Hugo, Lord Roxburton, the Don Juan of St Jamess Street and Lord of all he surveys Utta, the lovely, gifted young Swiss ice skater with wings on her feet Carole, the Cleopatra of Broadway with a fake family history and her claws into Hugo Don Carlos Jacra, the sleazy Hollywood talent scout with Utta in his sights Set in St. Moritz and London with this thrilling cast of characters, Wings on My Heart is a stirring story of love, lies and innocence, betrayed on an epic scale.
