"The Sultan has vowed to stable his horses in St Peter's. Go Home! Leave Vienna!" Heedless of Count Andrei Wiczasty's warnings, Arabella Lynton, daughter of the English envoy, is trapped in Vienna when the Turks lay siege to the city. With starvation...
'I shall marry no man who cannot match me pound for pound and acre for acre,' vowed Cleo Mortimer. But as the beautiful and unprotected heiress to Happenstance Hall, her choice of suitors was limited. There was the new minister, Huw Clwyd,...
Count Sergei Borodinov demanded obedience -- from his soldiers, his serfs and his wife. In his household there would be no hint of the westernization ordered by the Tsar. But Kirsty, his beautiful young bride, was English and use to independence -- a...
He needed her dowry to restore his estates -- her body to provide an heir -- but what of love? It was in the bleak winter at the end of the first Civil War when Richard Halley, Lord Alvescot, found Annagay Fleet sheltering in the deserted ruin...
Abigail Broughton, sold as an indentured servant to a spurned lover in colonial Williamsburg to offset her father's debts, risks her freedom on the luck of another wager as she seeks happiness in the New World...
Tangier under Siege! Part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to Charles II -- he was not prepared to maintain it properly, and Moulay Ismail wanted it... Into this tug of war went Major Melverley and his widowed daughter, Mrs Ferelith Durliston. Feelin...
A PROPER DISTANCE WAS NECESSARY... Miss India Leigh and her young brother Richard settled in the Fen country in order to live a quiet life. But they soon found that life was anything but quiet -- especially with the handsome Edward Chelworth, Visc...