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She was just his private secretary - would he ever know how mach she
loved him?
Christa might have thought herself lucky. She spent every working day
with Stephen Harrimay - the brilliant young executive - the man she
adored.
But Christa was only his private secretary. Each evening he left her
behind for society's most glamorous women - fast, beautiful wealthy
womaen - who could challenge his brilliance, and further his career.
Christa watched as he led his whirlwind life with the beautiful and the
rich, knowing that all she could offer was her calm, deep love. She
could only watch, wait and hope for the moment Stephen would stop, and
really see her for the first time...
A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of
Romance, first published in 1964, and available now for the first time in
eBook.
Robina Frayne has a lot to learn about life. Living a boring, stultifying existence in the country, she falls prey to the first man who offers to 'take her away from all this'. All the experience of her eighteen years is no match for smooth-talking philanderer Aubrey Mauldron.
After an unpleasant experience in Mauldron's Paris flat, she escapes back to England a wiser girl. Now less starry-eyed about men in general, she is soon to meet a particular man will will be everything that Mauldron is not: unselfish, generous, and very much in love with her. But ahead lies tragedy...
A dramatic story of love and ambition, set against the turbulence of the second World War.
Prue is young, beautiful and talented. Though she may love the charming and valiant soldier, Kit, whom she has nursed back to life after front-line combat, she cannot resist a long-coveted posing abroad. Once in France, temptations of a different kind - the attentions of a consultant surgeon - lure her even further away from her young admirer. It is only when Kit is seriously wounded that Prue is struck by the full force of her love for him, but by then fate is no longer in her hands...
It's a dream come true. For years Tracy Shaw has kept secret her love for childhood friend Sebastian Lemaire. Tracy was a fine girl and delicate beauty, but she was the village doctor's daughter, and Sebastian was already a very wealth young man, dazzled by fast cars and fast women.
Now, incredible as it seems, Sebastian comes home from a whirlwind vacation abroad - and asks Tracy to marry him. But people say he is still intoxicated by a girl named Conseulo, a worldly and sensuous jet-set beauty, who rejected him.
Does Sebastian really love Tracy, or he is just on the rebound? How can Tracy be sure of the affections of the man she loves, and make him forget another woman's undeniable glamour?
Though cousins Sally Browning and Philippa Frome are identical - in looks but not in character. When the married spoilt Philippa persuades her twin to pretend to be Mrs Frome so Philippa can run off on holiday with her secret lover Sally can only reluctantly agree.
And so she embarks upon a new life of wealth and luxury fooling all and sundry - even Philippa's invalid husband Martin. Soon accustomed to her new role Sally finds she has more devotion and love to give to the ailing Martin than she had imagined possible.
Juliet was nearly eighteen. Almost a woman. She was very rich. Her mother and half-sister were slim and attractive, but Juliet was rather plump. Her mother's attempts to find her a husband had failed, and Juliet was miserable.
Juliet lived in her own private world of music, art, and dreams... a world she was unable to share with anyone. Then one night at a concert, she caught the intense, probing gaze of the dark-eyed young stranger seated next to her. No man had ever looked at her like that. The woman inside Juliet stirred for the first time. She smiled back.
And so it began. Romero, the young Italian shared her love of music. But she did not know then the shocking and violent drama that lay in wait for her. Or that from the moment of their first embrace she had moved into a world from which there was no return.
There is only one thing in the world that they brilliant young musician, Jacques Clavel, wants; to marry his beautiful English sweetheart Mary Lessington. But his hopes are shattered and his heart broken when, against her will, Mary is forced to marry the wealthy Earl of Ventyre!
In his despair Jacques vows to dedicate the rest of his life to music until, after ten long years, it seems that at last his dream may come true. But Jacques has not bargained for Auriol Crannock, a woman of unparalleled greed, jealousy and evil, a woman who is determined to possess Jacques - and keep him away from his beloved Mary - whatever the cost.
So, when Auriol is found brutally murdered in her Mayfair flat, the evidence seems conclusive...
They are not at all alike. She is young very wealthy and accustomed to having everything her own way. He is serious determined - a man who works for every penny he made and who has no time for play.
They are completely wrong for each other. And yet they love one another desperately. And something holds them together. Something that makes them want to lie and hide their love affair from friends and family for there seems no other way.
Jezebel's reception into Samaria was hailed as one of the wonders of the world. Drenched in the exotic colours of the East, the spectacle of Ahab's bride and her triumphant progress to the Ivory Palace was never to be forgotten.
Yet even then, amid the cheering voices, there were those who seemed to sense a dreadful power in Jezebel's stately bearing. Her beauty brought her praise and admiration from all who served her. But as Thamar, her half-sister had foreseen, the seeds of Jezebel's glory were later to bear a terrible fruit. For her evil and tyranny would one day earn her the title of the wickedest woman in the world.
Victoria longs for romance, but is stifled by her mother and sister.
She escapes to Paris and a loveless marriage, and begins to understand,
possibly too late, what true love is all about.
Life had always smiled sweetly on Delia Beringham. As well as being disarmingly lovely, she is the only daughter of a wealthy financier who indulged her every whim. Naturally Delia assumes that her indulgent father will eventually allow her to marry Lionel Hewes.
But the sudden crash of the family fortunes and her father's suicide changes all that. Lionel abruptly faded from the picture and Delia is left with only her own courage and determination to sustain her.
In 1939, war clouds are gathering. Veronica Hallard is happily married
and living in Lagos with her husband Charles, until he sends her back to
England ahead of him. But he doesn't arrive as expected - his boat is
torpedoed.
At first Veronica refuses to believe he is dead. Her broken heart causes
her to suffer a complete nervous collapse. Her only consolation is the
friendship of Boyd Mansell, who she met on the voyage home.
In Boyd, she finds new happiness and a new marriage, and the memory of
Charles begins to fade. Until one day, fate delivers another cruel blow
- Charles returns from the dead!
A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of
Romance, first published in 1946 and now available for the first time in
eBook.
A darkly captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1929 and now available for the first time in eBook.
Marion Grayle is in love! Overwhelmingly, totally in love. Wild and elemental as her native Dartmoor, with her flaming red-gold hair, challenging dark eyes and the supple allurement of her figure, she has always stood apart from the locals: like a creature from another world. She has spurned all suitors - until now. Now that she has found the one man she is determined will be hers, no one will be allowed to stand in her way. Neither convention, conscience nor scruple will stop her. Only the village wise woman, or mad woman, black-clad and second-sighted, forsees the terrible consequences of Marion's fated, obsessive love.
Half Russian, with all the deep seated passion of that people, Tamara Whitfield thinks herself very much in love with Paul Pryce. Paul with his attractive mocking smile, has captured her heart and for her, it has been no casual affair. But Paul, a struggling young composer, does not want to be pinned down, and he leaves Tam for another girl...
Tam marries Quentin, a young stockbroker who is handsome and reliable. But try as she might, Tam cannot forget Paul. When a tragedy alters her whole life, she finds herself drawn once more to her old flame...