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  The Di Sione Secret Baby

  Maya Blake

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  Sneaking into a billionaire’s bedroom to rescue a family treasure brings unexpected consequences . . . 
   
  Charity CEO Allegra Di Sione can’t fail in her mission to retrieve her grandfather’s beloved antique box from Sheikh Rahim Al-Hadi—which is why she gets caught in Rahim’s sumptuous bedroom trying to steal it! 
   
  Seducing the gorgeous sheikh is her only chance at escape. But when Allegra slips away the next morning, she’s unaware she now carries something infinitely more precious—and that when Rahim finds out, he’ll have no choice but to make the enticing thief his queen . . .

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  A Tangled Web

  Barbara Cartland

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  Demure young beauty Carola Greton’s brother, Sir Peter, comes home from London with a very strange proposition for his sister. He asks her to pretend for a few days to be the wife of his friend, the Marquis of Broxburne! 
  The reason for the charade is that the Marquis is in line for the post of Chairman of a new automobile Company founded by an American acquaintance, the multimillionaire Mr. Alton Westwood. 
  Although eager to secure the position of Chairman, the Marquis is desperate to avoid Mr. Westwood’s attempts to marry him off to his daughter Mary-Lou – so he has told the American that he is already married. 
  And that is where Carola comes in – playacting the part of the Marchioness of Broxburne for the duration of the Westwoods’ stay at Brox Hall. 
  Thus begins a tangled web that leads to Carola pretending to be her brother’s cousin as well.
  It is a web that ties her in knots of anguish when she falls head over heels in love, but it seems that her own lies will ensure that this Divine love can never be fulfilled –

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  A Steeplechase For Love

  Barbara Cartland

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  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 has to step into her shoes and be the lady’s maid.
  To everyone’s surprise Lady Basset organises a steeplechase and the Duke is the favourite to win on his stallion Masterpiece.
  However Helsa uncovers a dastardly plot on the day of the steeplechase to lure the Duke into marrying against his will.
  How Helsa saves the Duke and unexpectedly finds the love of her life is all told in this exciting romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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  Drawn in Blood

  Andrea Kane

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  To protect her family, a woman is forced to keep secrets from her FBI agent partner in this romantic suspense from a New York Times bestseller. 
   
  Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank has seen her share of danger. But she never expected that danger to invade the lives of her family. . . . 
   
  Then her mother is viciously attacked in the posh Manhattan apartment her parents share and it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary robbery—the thieves obviously after something of her father’s. But what could a respected art dealer have done to merit such violence? Determined to find out the truth, Sloane discovers a deadly secret buried in her father’s past that has made him the target of a power-hungry mobster with a lethal agenda. 
   
  Desperate to save her father, Sloane must hold on to secrets of her own—especially from FBI Special Agent Derek Parker, the man she has grown to love deeply. Sloane could never betray her father’s confidence. But withholding from Derek could prove dangerous in more ways than one.  
   
  As the killer closes in on her father, Sloane finds herself in foreign territory: alone, facing escalating personal danger, and hunting a moving target in a world where memories are long and loyalties are drawn in blood.

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  Love at the Ritz

  Barbara Cartland

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  After her father, the Earl of Cuttesdale, suffers a riding injury, his lovely young daughter, Lady Vilma, accompanies him to Paris, where they are to stay at a friend’s Rue St. Honoré house while he receives treatment from a Parisian expert on backs. Because he is a proud man the Earl wants no one to know that he is temporarily disabled so they travel under one of their lesser-known names, calling themselves ‘Colonel and Miss Crawshaw’.To Vilma’s astonishment the celebrated hotelier Cézar Ritz arrives at their door with a strange request which is to borrow one of the house’s chandeliers for the hotel. After agreeing to help him, Vilma soon finds herself at the Ritz Hotel, where she has an unpleasant encounter with an over-amorous French Comte – and is rescued just in time by a dashing Englishman, the Marquis of Lynworth. Assuming that Vilma is a lowly electrician’s assistant, the Marquis is nevertheless taken with her and soon he is escorting her around Paris, introducing her to all the sights, the restaurants and sophisticated Society. And, although the handsome Marquis has all London’s Society ladies, not to mention the cocottes of Paris at his feet and, despite the fact that his mother has promised his hand in marriage to Princess Helgie of Whitenberg, he finds himself bewitched with Vilma and her enchanting beauty.. For her part, she too is deeply in love – but how can she tell him now that everything he knows about her is a lie?

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  A Golden Lie

  Barbara Cartland

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  The tenth Earl of Narbrooke is a miser.
  	He is obsessed with money and is prepared to starve himself as well as his household and will not give a penny to his family even though he is the Head of it.
  	He has locked himself away in his vast mansion and neglects the estate until it becomes a disgrace.
  	Colonel Euan Campbell, who had been wounded in the War with Napoleon, is very hard-up and accepts the position of managing the Earl's horses.  He is given a cottage for his wife and his daughter, Devona, aged thirteen.
  	The Colonel is killed by a wild horse that the Earl insists on buying because it was cheap and, as they are destitute, Mrs. Campbell and Devonia are taken into the big house so that they can help the servants although they are not paid.
  	Mrs. Campbell dies of pneumonia in the unheated house while Devona stays on.
  	Then one morning the miserly Earl is found dead from a stroke and Devona sends a message to the next Earl who lives in London.
  	Before he arrives, however, she finds the Earl's will in which every penny he possesses is to be buried with him.
  	Because she is terrified that the new Earl will be like his brother, she burns the will, thinking that if the money goes to the family they will help her.
  	When the new Earl does arrive, he is the miser's nephew and to Devona's surprise he is young, tall and handsome and when he asks the beautiful Devona who she is, because she is so scared, she says that she is the daughter of his uncle.
  	How after the funeral the new Earl visits the Bank and finds that his uncle has left a huge fortune of one million pounds.
  	How Devona is stunned to learn that as she is the next of kin, the money goes to her.
  	How she comes to an arrangement with the new Earl and how because it leaks out that she is the heiress she is terrorised by a fortune-hunter, but eventually finds love is all told in this unusual story by BARBARA CARTLAND.

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