The Sixth Form

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Joyce Dingwell

Polly's heart was not really broken. It had been hurt, though, by her broken romance in England. Thorn Clemance's offer of a job as companion to the lovely Serena Clemance took Polly to the lush Australian valley where the Clemance brothers conducted agricultural research. But Polly couldn't make any sense of the Clemence household. What was wrong with Serena? Why was she guarded? And until she knew Thorn's relationship with Serena - Polly dared not admit she was falling in love with him!

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Anne Stuart

A match made in hell. A long string of tragic loves haunts Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan. Cool and cynical, he's weary of life's fickle games and wants a prim and proper wife he can ignore while indulging his sensual appetites. Lady Melisande Carstairs is nothing less than a tornado storming into Benedick's measured life. Possessed of boundless energy and the soul of a reformer, Melisande always conquers, whether it's saving the souls of soiled doves or seducing the man she's inconveniently fallen for. When she informs Benedick that his brother's newly revived Heavenly Host has graduated from simple carnal debauchery to sadistic violence, he's compelled to investigate, undercover. Under those covers, however, is Melisande herself, playing a dangerous game in the name of justice. And the Heavenly Host has just seen her hand, and more...

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adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves.

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Marjorie Shoebridge

I am afraid you misunderstand me, Miss Cameron. I am not offering you the post of governess...but a position as my wife! It was hardly the romantic proposal of a young woman's fantasies. But Elizabeth Cameron could no longer afford the luxury of waiting for dreams to come true. Her father's death had left her destitute . . . forced to sell all her possessions to repay his debts. So Gregory Darrell's proposition was one she could not refuse. The marriage—in name only—would make her mistress of his splendid estate . . . and step-mother to his beloved son. But from the moment of her arrival at Ranleigh Court, Elizabeth questions her husband's motives—especially as he makes no secret of his association with another woman. And especially when she learns of his business partnership with her late father. And as the weeks pass and intrigue deepens at Ranleigh Court, Elizabeth grows fearful that she is being made a prisoner there. That she may pay for her impulsive marriage of convenience with her very life.... A rich novel of romance set in nineteenth-century England.