A Chieftain Finds Love

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Barbara Cartland

Far from the dazzle and extravagance of London's society, Nerissa Stanley and her brother lead a quiet country life as she keeps house for her father, a distinguished but improverished author. Suddenly their elder sister Delphine arrives. Some years before she had managed to marry a rich, elderly Peer and has since ignored her poor relations. But now she needs their help. Recently widowed, she is hoping to marry the Duke of Lynchester, but has to establish the suitability of her own family. She offers her brother and sister a generous and badly-needed sum of money if they will pretend to be the servants when she brings the Duke to meet her father. Reluctantly they agree but the scheme is uncovered by chance and the Duke invites them all to join a a House Part at his superb Elizabethan house. Enchanted if a little overawed by the magnificence of his establishment, Nerissa is nonetheless able to lift the family curse that blights the Lynchester family. Meanwhile, the Duke, bored and cynical about the Society beauties who pursue him, finds in Nerissa a natural, true loveliness.

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Lisa Cach

Teasing the female passengers about the perils of the open sea was great fun, but once Horatio Merivale opened his mouth to laugh at danger, he wished he’d kept it shut. A storm dragged the Coventry under, and it was all the East India Company officer could do to rescue a terrified blonde from the merchantman’s foundering hulk. Still, the girl brought out the best in him, and the whole escapade seemed the start of a marvelous adventure. Though she was but a simple lady’s maid, the recurring dream luring Anne Hazlett from England was grand — a turquoise seascape with a jade-carved island whose beaches beckoned. Yet she hadn’t expected to arrive on flotsam, be accosted by pirates, or have such an odd entourage. Indeed, the man who’d saved her was thrilled by their bad luck! “The Hand of Destiny” he called it. And looking into her eyes, the grinning Horatio made a promise: The current that swept them forward was irrestible, but he would see Anne to… The Wildest Shore.

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Mary Nichols

RUMORS WERE FLYINGHer name was on everyone's lips. They were agog to find out what Miss Elizabeth Harley had been doing down at the East India Docks. And in such shocking apparel! Why, her uncle's generosity in giving her a London season had been thrown back in his face. Elizabeth had not meant to sully her good name. All she'd craved was a chance to travel. Andrew Melhurst had come to her rescue when she needed him most, but should she consider marrying him to save her reputation?

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Martha Kirkland

AN UNEXPECTED BETROTHAL... — Unable to decide which of the ravishing Swann twins to marry, Lord Evan Trent lets a flip of the coin determine his fate, resulting in an offer of marriage to the eldest daughter. His dismay is understandable when he arrives at the Swann manor to discover he is betrothed to a woman he's never met--Lydia Swann, the third--and oldest!--Swann daughter. Evan knows the girl's father has duped him, but as a man of his word, he will honor his pledge to marry her... ...LEADS TO AN UNEXPECTED LOVE Refusing to be trapped in a loveless union, Lydia offers her fiance a scandalous proposal. If he will allow her to spend a month at his country estate, where she can renew the acquaintance of a man she's loved since she was a schoolgirl, she will break the engagement at month's end. Yet Lydia never imagines that joining forces against her father's trickery will cause her to lose her heart to Evan, and make her blossom into a most beautiful swan..