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Carrie Elks

Can the one who broke your heart be the one to heal it? On New Year's Eve, 1999, Hanna and Richard meet. She is a born and bred Londoner with plans for a career in journalism. He is the son of a wealthy New Yorker and destined for Wall Street. As Hanna and Richard go back to their own worlds they keep in touch, and when Hanna has her heart broken it's Richard she turns to. They reunite and fall deeply, madly in love. But they can't possibly imagine the ways their love will be tested. Fifteen years after they first meet, neither can bear to hear the other's name spoken. Then one day Hanna walks into Richard's office and reveals a shocking secret. Richard must decide if he can forgive her. And both need to choose whether to take a second chance on happiness, or if their love is beyond repair?

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Marie Corelli

Readers of Jeffrey Farnol would find many similarities in Marie Corelli's novel 'The Treasure of Heaven' they both have a similar style of writing. The story outlines the life of David Helmsley one of the richest men in the world who in his twilight years is very cynical about women. Following a failed marriage owing to his wife's infidelity he believes he has much to be cynical about. The story opens when David a seventy year old is talking to his friend and Solicitor about his life and expectations. He has no family to which to leave his money, he tells his friend that he has befriended a sweet young girl called Lucy but he does not wish to leave his money to her because she is female, rather silly and also he believes it will destroy her innocence to inherit his money. Alas shortly after the blinkers are lifted from his eyes when he finds that sweet young innocent Lucy would be quite prepared to marry him on the spot even though he is old enough to be her grandfather and all because he is wealthy. Disillusioned he walks away from his life and tramps around the byways of England. There after falling ill he is befriended by a lovely middle aged spinster called Mary who takes him in and looks after him. David continues his deception that he is a lonely poor old man, but that makes no difference to those that come to know him in his new incarnation. He also meets an ex journalist Angus struggling to make ends meet who also meets Mary and the two fall in love and agree to marry. David though falls gravely ill and dies leaving all his money to Mary. Who when she finds out how she has been deceived would prefer to give all the money away. Angus likewise feels the same and believes he is no longer in a position to marry Mary. Money it seems is a curse as well as a blessing.

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Kristina Cook

Ashton/Rosemoor (#0.5) He's notorious for his wicked ways... Frederick Stoneham thoroughly enjoys the life he leads as one of London's most disreputable rogues. When his father arranges for him to wed Lady Eleanor Ashton, he believes his decadent lifestyle can carry on uninterrupted. After all, he remembers Eleanor to be plain and timid—not the kind of wife who will demand attention or insist he leave his mistress. But Frederick has a change of heart when he sees the striking beauty Eleanor has become. Can she reform him? Eleanor is stunned to discover she is to wed Frederick Stoneham—the man she has secretly pined after for years, despite his reputation. When Frederick's former mistress tells her a horrible lie, Eleanor feels betrayed. But Frederick's persistence—and a passion that refuses to be ignored—are slowly melting Eleanor's resolve. Now Frederick must prove to Eleanor that his days as a rake are in the past and that she is the only woman he will ever love. Ashton/Rosemoor : To Love a Scoundrel (Ashton/Rosemoor, #0.5) Unlaced (Ashton/Rosemoor, #1) Unveiled (Ashton/Rosemoor, #2) Undressed (Ashton/Rosemoor, #3)

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Carole Mortimer

She loved him but couldn't marry him Cynara hadn't seen Zack Buchanan in five years, not since she'd hurt him--hurt herself even more--by leaving him. She'd let Zack think the worst of her to avoid watching his love slowly turn to ashes. But now that he'd stumbled across her singing at one of his hotels in London, she knew that he intended to exact payment for the past. She knew, too, that she would bargain with the devil himself to be with Zack again--as long as she could keep secret her reason for never marrying....