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 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. Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been pressed into working for him as his secretary to repay the debt, but that she has been promised to Lord Winterton in marriage. In the meantime, Lucia is being secretly wooed by the staid but good-looking Edward de …

Venetia was very lonely after the death of her parents. When her cousin Mary begs her to help to save her from a forced marriage, Venetia is ready to help. Mary was in love with another man and expecting his child. yet the queen wants her to marry the Earl of Mountwood at a moment's notice and go with him to India. A reckless impulse makes Venetia promise to take Mary's place at the altar. She would worry about the consequences later. Lord Mountwood is handsome, but haughty and autocratic, demanding instant obedience from his servants and his wife. When …

Sir Robin Dunstead returns from India after his father’s death to find that he has inherited two of the largest ancestral houses in England, but no money to restore them. Amazed to find both houses empty of servants and in a state of disrepair he berates himself for not returning home earlier. Stunned to learn that his father has sold everything of value that is not entailed and has squandered the family fortune on selfish pursuits, Robin is left with no income and not even enough money to buy food for himself and his sister, Alena.In complete despair, Robin commissions …

All eyes are on Lady Tamina Braithwaite as she dazzles the cream of London society at a masked ball. Dressed as a bird of paradise, even the sumptuous silks of her costume cannot detract from the glow that love has given her. In love for the first time with a handsome young politician, it would appear that they are a couple destined for great things. But is she the only one who is pretending to be something other than she is? Underneath Tamina’s frothy exterior there is an intelligent young woman who values truth and loyalty above all else. A …

Helsa, the exceptionally beautiful daughter of the Reverend Alfred Irvin, is thrilled when she learns that Irvin Hall, their vast ancestral home, has been rented for a large sum by a certain Lady Basset. Her Ladyship wishes to host a grand house party and has invited a number of distinguished guests including the handsome Duke of Mervinston. Helsa’s friend, Mary, agrees to play the vital role of lady’s maid to Lady Basset. But at the last minute, Mary cannot do it as she has to visit her ill grandmother. So Helsa fills in and plays the lady's maid. Helsa uncovers …

Lady Novella Crownley has been teaching at a girls' school far from her ancestral home, Crownley Hall. 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 remarried and the first time she meets her new stepfather, Lord Buckton. In her absence, Lord Buckton has been selling off everything at the hall he could lay his hands …

Vanda Sudbury and Robert, the Earl of Cunningham, have been friends from childhood. They knew all each other’s faults and weaknesses, and squabbled like brother and sister. When her father tries to force a marriage between them, they are equally horrified. Fond though he is of Vanda, Robert is sure he could never love such a forceful, strong-minded female. She is equally dismissive of him as a husband. Together they fleet to France to see the great Paris Exposition, and climb the newly built Eiffel Tower. As they see the amazing sights of Europe, the two discover that there is …

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 with whom he associates. So when Lucia, an impoverished but delicately alluring young Englishwoman, accosts him at a café 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 her father dies.Lucia is distraught and destitute. The Marquis saves her from penury by buying her father’s every …

When Rena's father dies, she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. There in the earth, she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the earl to marry his daughter. There is something sinister about Mr. …

When you are the sole heir of an English Lord who has made his fortune after striking oil in Texas, it's hard to know if the young men hotly pursuing you are in love with your beauty or your money. Declaring herself to be only interested in marrying a man who loves her for herself, Henrietta Radford is forced to flee Texas and return to England to escape the grasping hands of penniless fortune hunter Prince Vasily. Beautiful, intelligent and brave, Henrietta, chaperoned by her aging nanny, boards The Boston Queen bound for Liverpool under the assumed name of Harrietta …

Scandal, adultery, and an angry husband has to be avoided if the Duke of Rockinston, one of the most handsome and charming bachelors in London, is to keep his family honour. With the furious Earl of Darran hot on his heels, the duke narrowly escapes complete social ruin after being discovered leaving the home of the lovely countess at three o’clock in the morning. Unable to convince the earl that their liaison was nothing more than innocent friendship, the only way the duke can save his family from scandal, and the countess from an unpleasant divorce, is by announcing his …