The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive and elusive bachelor in London,and the most notorious.His exploits and romantic escapades keep the salons buzzing, but never more so than when he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realise that what has captured the duke’s heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.The wedding date has been fixed when the duke discovers that his fiancée has taken a lover, a close friend of his.Shattered and disillusioned, the duke plots a cruel revenge. When he reveals to his sister, the mother superior of a convent in Paris, that …

Protected by loving parents, young, beautiful, and happy, Lady Ravina Ashley has the world at her feet. Unused to harsh words, she is taken aback when a stranger at a ball in London takes her to task for her behaviour toward a clumsy suitor. But Ravina hopes that one day she will fall madly passionately in love and refuses to think of marriage to anyone until then. With her parents away in the Balkans, Ravina leaves London to stay with her cousin, Dulcie, at the Ashley estate in Dorset. She is travelling with Sir Michael Moore, who has begged a …

When Lady Verena’s widowed father suddenly remarries, she finds that her stepmother is anxious to make a match of convenience for her new stepdaughter and produces a suitor who is repellant. Verena has always sworn that when she marries, it will be for love and for no other reason. Feeling that she has no choice but to run away, Verena makes a daring midnight escape from her home. With the help of the family groom, she reaches the nearest port intending to flee to France, only to find that the tide is against her. A change of identity and a …

Amidst the exciting preparations for the grand opening of Prince Albert’s prized Crystal Palace, a young orphan, Sorilda, is being forced into marriage by her recently cuckolded uncle, the Duke of Nuneaton. Having sheltered lovely Sorilda since the tragic death of her parents, the usually fair-minded duke has been driven to jealous retaliation by his deceitful new duchess. Suspecting his close neighbour, the Earl of Winsford, of ungentlemanly conduct with his beautiful wife, the duke issues an ultimatum: The earl must renounce the duchess and marry the duke’s flame-haired niece or face the public embarrassment of a scandal.

After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning. And after sleeping later than usual the following morning, he is ready to go riding when his valet tells him that a strange man was waiting downstairs to see him urgently. Pierre, a rough-looking, rough-speaking Frenchman gave him a letter from his nephew CharlesIt said that he was being kept a prisoner until he told his captors and their patron, the scheming Comte de Roulé, how to break into Lord Lanwood’s castle as they planned …

Lady Elvina, the daughter of the Earl Winwood, is rich, beautiful, and in love. Any day now Captain Andrew Broadmoor would propose to her. But then she overhears him saying that he doesn't love her and only wants her for her money. Elvina travels to Cumberland, where she heard the Duke of Castleforde was looking for a governess for his unruly sister, Violet. Concealing her true identity, she presents herself as plain Mrs. Winters. In Violet, Elvina finds a troubled, rebellious young girl who needs her help. She begins to grow close to the Duke, but duty forbids him to …

When her irresponsible brother rents the family home, Langston Manor, for the duration of the Royal Ascot races to Valient, Earl of Trevarnon and his wild gentleman friends, lonely and innocent young Demelza is afraid. Although married to a woman who has lost her mind and is in an asylum, Trevarnon is a well-known ‘ladies’ man’ – and, for her own safety and modesty, Demelza agrees to hide among The Manor’s maze of secret passages. As she watches, though, through the old house’s ancient peepholes, she sees another, very different, side to the notorious Nobleman. Suddenly one moonlit night, under …

Welcome to the Pink Collection from Barbara Cartland, a new collection of pure romance books from the biggest selling Romantic author of all time. If you enjoy Downton Abbey you will love Barbara Cartland. Book One of Two - The Cross of Love: 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. At the nearby grounds of The Grange, she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. Book Two of Two - Love in …

After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour wast been available during the war, the hall, which dates back to Tudor times, is badly in need of repair. The farms on his extensive estate were untenanted and the fields unplowed. Not only had all the local men been taken by the Army, but a large number had not returned. The villagers faced near starvation and many of the elderly died from want of attention. …

Lord Salwicke is a very rich but worried man. His beautiful daughter, Tasia, is already 20, which has dampened his hopes of her taking London by storm. Though not quite an old maid, he fears she may have missed her chance for wedded bliss. So he decides to take matters into his own hands and finds her a suitable husband. Tasia is not a young lady who likes being told what to do. Headstrong and stubborn she envisages marriage to a man who loves her, not a union of convenience to a man she hasn’t met. Determined to show her …