Alfreda almost laughed at herself for all the silly young Frenchmen she might have married, had she been allowed. How boring it would have been for her, she now realized She never would have been able to live a life of deceit, which was much more exc...
I ALWAYS HOPED THAT THE MAN I WOULD MARRY WOULD BE PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH ME--THE KIND WHO MIGHT FIGHTA DUEL FOR OR CARRY ME OFF IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. I CAN'T IMAGINE VICTOR DOING ANYTHING THAT MIGHT CREASE HIS CLOTHES OR SPOIL THE LINE OF HIS...
Her real name was Christabel Devlin but she called herself Miss Stone. Because behind the glasses, and the plain dowdy figure an incredible beauty lay hidden. It was this loveliness that had caused her many problems with the titled gentlemen for w...
"THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LOVE." Soon after these words were spoken to lovely Anna Whitten, she discovered their terrible truth: events on a faraway battlefield had left her a widow at twenty three. But she would not allow her grief to d...
THEY WERE DISTANT RELATIONS CLOSELY ENTANGLED IN A KNOT OF LOVE. Twenty is too old to turn down good proposals, people keep telling Elizabeth. But she is far too fanciful to marry for anything but pure love; and there is only one man who really in...
IT WAS EITHER MARRY A MAN SHE DESPISED OR WATCH HER FAMILY SUFFER FINANCIAL DESPERATION. Susannah looked much younger than her eighteen years. Which is why her father's Scottish tenant farmer, Sandy, treated her like a little girl. Until one day w...