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  The Race for Love

  Barbara Cartland

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  All her young life has been lived in the shadow of her father’s disgrace after he was caught cheating at cards at his Club in London and Alita Lang lives a dismal life under sufferance with her begrudging aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Langstone.           In fact the only love in Alita’s lonely life is her passion for her uncle’s thoroughbred horses, especially her beloved stallion, Flamingo, who she has taught many tricks to. She spends most of her time in the Duke’s stables and can train the most unruly horse        And now the Duke, desperate to raise money, is determined to sell them all to the brash American multi-millionaire who has just bought the neighbouring estate and its magnificent Marshfield House.        Introduced to the handsome, blue-eyed and tanned Clint Wilbur as Alita Blair, an employee of the estate, she soon finds herself working for him on improvements to his stables and soon, through his consistent kindness and gentle thoughtfulness, she discovers an alluring new side to her new employer and ally.       Suddenly Alita’s heart is racing as she realises that she is in love. But surely the race for love is already lost because the Duke is already scheming for his daughter, Hermione, to marry the eligible millionaire and join their two estates together.KeywordsPrince of Wales, Texas, The Derby, Gaiety Theatre, Gaiety Girls, Steeplechase, Fox Hunt, thoroughbred, Covent Garden

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  The Golden Illusion

  Barbara Cartland

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  Since her mother’s death, the beautiful but innocent Linetta Falaise has led a sheltered life under the wing of her kindly French Governess. So she is heartbroken to find that her beloved Mademoiselle is at death’s door and that she, Linetta, had unknowingly been living off her meagre savings for the last two years.As she now has no money, there is no alternative but for Linetta to travel to Paris and ask Mademoiselle’s niece, Marie-Ernestine, to help her find suitable employment, perhaps teaching English to French children.Almost as soon as she boards the cross-channel Steamer heading for Calais, her innocent eyes are opened to the wicked ways of the world when a strange man’s unwanted and frightening attentions drive her to seek the protection of a handsome and noble stranger, the Marquis of Darleston, who is travelling to Paris on a secret mission for the British Prime Minister.After they part company, Linetta is introduced to the heady glamour of Paris Society by the glamorous Marie-Ernestine, who is really the celebrated and infamous Blanche d’Antigney.Linetta is appalled by Les Grandes Cocottes, who sell love to the highest bidder, especially since she is expected to join them because she is so young and enchanting.Afraid, alone and beset by lecherous ‘gentlemen’, Linetta remembers the handsome distinguished Marquis she met on the Steamer and prays fervently that he will come to her rescue yet again.

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  The Collected Works of Sir...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 21000 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: 
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Sign of the Four
  • The Valley of Fear
  • The Lost World
  • His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Tales of Terror and Mystery
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventure of the Dying Detective
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
  • The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
  • The Poison Belt
  • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
  • The Coming of the Fairies
  • The White Company
  • The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
  • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
  • The Great Boer War
  • The Adventure of the Red Circle
  • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Valley of Fear
  • Songs Of The Road
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
  • The Adventures of Gerard
  • Short Stories of Various Types
  • Sir Nigel
  • His Last Bow
  • The Parasite: A Story
  • The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
  • The Crime of the Congo
  • The Sign of the Four
  • Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
  • The Mystery of Cloomber
  • Micah Clarke
  • The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates
  • Danger! and Other Stories
  • Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
  • R. Holmes & Co.John Kendrick Bangs
  • Through the Magic Door
  • The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
  • The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure
  • The Refugees
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The German War
  • My Friend The Murderer
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
  • The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
  • The Doings of Raffles Haw
  • The Cabman's Story
  • The War in South Africa
  • A Desert Drama: Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
  • The Vital Message
  • Beyond the City
  • Rodney Stone
  • The New Revelation
  • The Firm of Girdlestone
  • The Parasite
  • The Stark Munro Letters
  • A Visit to Three Fronts: June 
  • Uncle Bernac
  • The Gully of Bluemansdyke
  • La grande ombre (Französisch)
  • The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring
  • The Tragedy of the Korosko
  • The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
  • The Lost World
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • The Adventures of Gerard
  • The Pursuit of the House-BoatJohn Kendrick Bangs
  • The Sign of the Four
  • A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
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  Love Is a Gamble

  Barbara Cartland

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  It was bad enough when her beloved mother died and the beautiful young Idona Overton and her father faced the news that the meagre allowance Lady Overton received from her Family Trust died with her. In his grief Sir Richard Overton spent more and more time away from Overton Manor enjoying London’s dissolute pleasures before finally he was killed in a duel in somewhat suspicious circumstances.But the greatest shock of all for Idona was yet to come! A legal representative arrives at her home with appalling news for her. Her father had gambled away everything that he owned on the turn of a card – the Manor House, the stables, all the horses and, most shockingly, even Idona herself! The new owner is the imperiously handsome Marquis of Wroxham, who treats his new Ward with a mixture of scorn and amusement as he launches her into a frighteningly sophisticated world of subterfuge, deceit and a sinister highwaymen’s plot. Soon a stolen kiss changes everything and Idona is in love with the Marquis – a love that is surely doomed since he is set to marry the beautiful Lady Rosebel one of the great beauties of London.

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  The Lioness and the Lily

  Barbara Cartland

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  Man about town and something of a ‘ladies’ man’ the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise Welwyn, appears suddenly in his bedroom in the middle of the night. So he is appalled when he learns that Lady Louise’s formidable mother expects him to marry her. Her motivation is clear, although penniless at the time, he has since unexpectedly inherited the title of his family’s Earldom and the huge estate of Rock Castle after his uncle’s and cousin’s death in a train crash.He realises that he could never be happy with Lady Louise and so he flees her and London for the safety of the countryside where he breaks his collarbone in a riding accident and is knocked unconscious.When he awakens, he finds that he is being nursed by a lovely country girl called ‘Purilla’. She is beautiful, demure and intelligent – in fact everything he ever wanted in a wife, so he persuades her to save him by marrying him at once. Purilla has already fallen deeply in love with the handsome Earl – but how can she turn a marriage of his convenience into one of true love?

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  Lace

  Catrin Kean

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  When six year old Mary's father dies unexpectedly, her mother struggles to feed her five children and has no choice but to leave Mary and her sisters in a Dublin orphanage while she trains as a nurse. When, a long time later, she finally goes home, Mary vows never to think about that place again. But the years of cruelty and neglect have left deep emotional scars, and Mary realises she must face her trauma in order to be able to move on with her life.
  Lace is the standalone sequel to Salt (Wales Book the Year 2021)
  PRAISE FOR LACE
  "Enthralling." – The Bookseller
  "With Lace, the stunning sequel to the award-winning Salt, Catrin Kean has spun an enthralling tale of trauma, redemption, and tangled family bonds: as delicate and complex as lace itself."  – Carly Holmes
  "Kean's writing is much like the lace Mary crafts in this sublime novel, intricate and delicate, tightly woven, robust and very finely controlled."  – Rachel Trezise
  
  "In the delicate dance of lacework, each thread becomes a conduit of transformation, weaving a tapestry of healing. The intricate patterns, formed with care and intention, create more than just a beautiful fabric—they spin the very threads of rejuvenation and hope, but not everything can be healed in one generation."  – Isabel Adonis

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