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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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  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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  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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  The Husband Hunters

  Barbara Cartland

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  After the death of her parents, young Andrina Maldon has selflessly borne the responsibility not only for the running a household impoverished by her father’s profligacy but also for the future happiness of her two sisters. 
  Strikingly beautiful as they are, there is no hope of their finding a suitable suitor without someone to introduce them to the Social world.  
  So she travels unchaperoned to London to seek the assistance of the Duke of Broxbourne, her father’s friend and the Godfather she has never met.
  On the stagecoach journey Andrina has a frightening encounter with a gentleman at a Posting inn – and on arrival at Broxbourne House she is appalled to find that this man is none other than the Duke of Broxbourne himself. 
  At first unwilling to help her, the Duke grudgingly agrees  to her requests and although grateful, Andrina despises this arrogant and insensitive man – until, little by little, his true nature is revealed and a very different emotion begins to stir in her heart.

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  An Introduction to The Barbara...

  Barbara Cartland

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  This is a special introduction to the works of the great pure romance author Barbara Cartland. Four books in one volume.

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