The third heiress

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Kathryn Ross

A marriage or a financial arrangement? Eighteen months ago Elizabeth and Jay Hammond made a hasty marriage of convenience to secure her inheritance. But when Elizabeth suspected Jay was having an affair with another woman, she left him. Her expertly hidden feelings for Jay ran so deep that she fled Jamaica to make a new life for herself in London. Now Jay has come to find her -- and it seems he has some unfinished business concerning their marriage merger! The trouble is, Elizabeth can't be sure revenge isn't part of his reason for tracking her down....

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Joanna Trollope writing as Caroline Harvey

Behind Alexia Langley stands the legacy of three remarkable and indomitable women. But Alexia, nervous and shy, is totally unsuited to the freewheeling, miniskirted swinging London of the 1960s - and not particularly good at anything but cooking. Betrayed by a greedy husband, she is forced to carve out a new life with her baby, Carly - and it is only the gift of a crumbling castle in Scotland that unlocks her hidden strength. Later, it is Carly who, spurred by an ancestral diary, will retrace a journey to Afghanistan and bring the legacy of bravery, tragedy, and love full circle to where it began a century and a half before.--BOOK JACKET.

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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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Hannah Howell

"For Lady Primrose Wootten nothing has been ordinary since her father the Baron died and his wayward family filled the estate with greed and treachery. Primrose knows if she can just track down her brother, he can send the odious relations on their way. But instead she finds this enormous, powerful stranger, and forgets entirely what she was doing in the first place. Sir Bened Vaughn isn't much afraid of a pistol. But he is a bit afraid of the woman holding it, who stirs up something so primal he's not sure he can shake it off. Vaughn is an honorable man, and he knows he has no right to desire Primrose. Yet he does have an obligation to help her, and as they learn more about her brother's disappearance, he realizes that means staying by her side...and wondering how much longer they can resist temptation" --