The explosion of love
When the Princess Marie-Celeste's elderly music tutor departs for Paris, she realises that it is her only means of escape from her stifling home and an arranged marriage. As the Professor and Marie-Celeste approach the city, the train crashes, and a charming young poet comes to their rescue. The mysterious young man decides to join them in the Symbolist community, and Marie-Celeste finds herself falling hopelessly in love with him.
Paradise found
Salrina, beautiful daughter of the impoverished Lord Milbourne, had no choice but to go off all alone to sell a horse trained by her father. But on her journey she overhears two men planning to assassinate the Prince Regent.
Winged Victory
The lantern showed a girl lying on the floor of the stable. She was bound, gagged and her bare back criss-crossed with ugly weals.
When the Earl of Poynton was persuaded by Cledra that only his purchase of her horse, Winged Victory, would prevent its ill treatment, he could not quite believe she lived in a hostile world with an uncle who loathed her very existence.
Free from fear
The Duke was unconscious but alive!
Thankfully, Yolanda realised that Bonaparte did not want him dead, only held as a hostage. How could she save the man she loved from shame and imprisonment?
The heart of the clan
The beautiful Sona McCarron and her father journey back to their beloved Scotland to stay with the Duke of Invercarron, the head of the Clan. The occasion is the wedding of the Duke's son and heir, the Marquis of Inver, to the daughter of a neighbouring Chieftain.
The wings of ecstasy
Zena prayed that the Comte de Graumont survived the duel. Would he ever forgive her for involving him in such a situation? It would break her heart but after this week they could never meet again.
The innocent in Russia
Tsar's guests!"
In her hiding place, Zelina froze with terror. If the two statesmen became aware she had overheard their conversation retribution would be swift. Yet, somehow, she must warn Lord Charnock of Russia's true intentions...
From hate to love
After her father has been murdered by desert robbers, Atayla is taken, stabbed and near death, to the Mission in Tangiers. She slowly recovers but wonders how she can exist with no money and no idea how she can earn a living.
Then Father Ignatius, the Head of the Mission, tells her that a lady calling herself the Comtesse de Soisson requires an Englishwoman to take her little girl of eight, Felicity, to her father, the Earl of Rothwell, in England.
Atayla and Felicity journey to Roth Castle in Yorkshire.
The call of the Highlands
Lord Alistair McDonon was distressed to learn of the death of his elder brother, which now left him heir to a title. Vainly, he fought against his father's directive that he give up his home in London and return to Scotland to marry his brother's fiancée, Lady Moraig McNain.
Pure and Untouched
The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive man in London-and the most notorious. His exploits and romantic escapades keep the Salons of the Social World buzzing - but never more so than when he announces he will marry. His friends soon realize that what has captured the Duke's heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.
Moments of Love
To escape her would-be abductors. Simonetta squeezed through the window. On reaching the ground she ran frantically towards the Temple of Love, terrified she would be seen before she could hide....
11 nicely worn-in paperbacks with lots of character.
Some foxing present, and stamps of prior book dealers and names of previous owners written in the books add to their history.
Where a spine has been bent, it has been reinforced. The books are completely solid and ready to be loved by their new owner.
Condition: 6
