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  The Goddess and the Gaiety Girl...

  Barbara Cartland

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  Katie King is a girl with big dreams for the future! A dancer in the heart of London’s theatre land, Katie is awaiting her big break, when her name will finally be in lights above the Gaiety Theatre. Fun-loving, cute and adoring of her charming boyfriend, the enigmatic Harry Carrington, Katie is sure that her unusual crowning glory of wild auburn curls will help catapult her out of the chorus line and into the leading roles she deserves. But Katie’s dazzling smile masks a tragedy – she is desperately ill and her enforced absence from the stage means that she does not have the money for the private healthcare she so badly needs. A few streets away, illness has touched the life of another young woman with distinctive Titian hair, Larentia. She is nursing her sick father, the eminent historian Professor Braintree, and suffers similar horrors when he is diagnosed as incurable. Whilst brilliant and an expert in his field, the Professor’s books gain him respect, not money and they too cannot afford the surgery needed. At first it seems that the only two things that the girls have in common are their astoundingly beautiful hair and a desperate need for money to employ the services of the pioneering surgeon Mr. Curtis Sheldon. However, the sudden death of the 4th Duke of Tregaron, a cad of the first order, whose unwanted attentions and lewd behaviour caused a naive Katie such pain in her first year in London, results in Harry coming up with a daring plan to capitalise on their short lived relationship. If Larentia agrees to play her part, and the new Duke, Justin Garon, believes their story there is just a chance that they can raise enough money to save both Katie and the Professor. But can an innocent young woman, with no experience of the darker side of life, be able to trick everyone? And what will be the ultimate cost of the deception if she fails? For this final curtain call Katie must sit back stage as Larentia prepares to give the performance of a lifetime.

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  Heather's Song

  Diana Palmer

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  ALL SHE EVER WANTED Cole Everett watched Heather Shaw grow from a child into a girl hovering on the edge of womanhood…and then watched her walk away from him to make it as a singer. Just as her career is taking off, an accident brings Heather back to the ranch and back to Cole.But it is far from a happy homecoming. Heather is confused by her growing awareness of Cole as a man, and hurt by how much he hates her for leaving. Yet he refuses to ask her to stay. What will it take to convince him that the song in her heart is only for him?

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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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  Revenge of the Heart

  Barbara Cartland

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  Warren Wood is handsome, loyal and devoted to Magnolia. However, the one thing he lacks is a title and Magnolia betrays him in a heartbeat for the opportunity to be engaged to the Marquis of Buckwood. 
  
  For beautiful and beguiling as she is, behind her perfect exterior lies a scheming manipulative personality that is desperate for wealth and standing in Society. 
  
  Distraught and vowing to eschew love for evermore, Warren seeks solace in the African jungle, determined to forget the woman whose lovely face has nearly driven him to madness. 
  
  But now the wheel of fate has turned and suddenly a legacy is calling him home to take up responsibilities he never dreamt would be his, and the chance to be reunited with Magnolia who surprisingly begs his forgiveness. 
  
  Determined not to answer her siren’s call, he leaves for England taking with him the sweet but mysterious Nadia, another young person desperate to leave behind the past. Together they concoct a charade that should free Warren from Magnolia’s clutches and offer Nadia a new life.
  
  As the time for Warren to meet Magnolia again grows closer, he begins to feel nervous. Will he be able to resist the seductive charms of the woman he once loved to distraction? For above all else Magnolia is determined to marry well and she is not going to let a little thing like Warren’s heart stand in her way.

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  The Unbreakable Spell - Parisian...

  Barbara Cartland

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  Oppressed and trodden on by her aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Bruntwick, who despise her because her father died in debt and her mother was French, Rocana Brunt yearns to escape the confines of their Bruntwick Castle. Yet when her dear cousin Lady Caroline is ordered much against her will to marry the imperious Marquis of Quorn, simply to extricate him from a potential scandal over one of his many liaisons, loyal Rocana agrees to take her cousin’s place at the altar so that Lady Caroline may elope with her beloved Patrick. At least she believes that this deception and the loveless marriage that would undoubtedly follow, might free then her from her virtual slavery. Her deceit is not revealed until long after the wedding, when she and the Marquis reach Paris and her cousin and Patrick are safely and ecstatically wed. And soon, through her own magic and some dangerous escapades, Rocana herself feels a glimmer of hope that she too is about to find eternal happiness in a true love of her own.

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  A Deal with Alejandro

  Maya Blake

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  A titan of technology breaks all his rules for one woman in this titillating romance from the author of One Night with Gael. 
   
  Alejandro Aguilar never mixes business with pleasure—but his newest employee, marketing guru Elise Jameson, is refreshingly different and irresistibly intoxicating. Working together on a high-octane multibillion-dollar merger, exhilaration gets the better of them . . .  
   
  Until now!  
   
  This Spaniard is still wrestling demons from his past and he sees betrayal everywhere, including in the eyes of his temptress Elise. So he fires her, destroying the business deal—and her heart. Until he realizes his mistake. Innocent Elise is the key to the merger, and she knows her price—but is Alejandro prepared to go all in? 
   
  “A well written romance with likable and strong characters . . . had me hooked till the last page.” —Harlequin Junkie

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