She defied society to claim her love... Louisa was too young to really understand what was happening between her impulsive, golden-haired cousin Caroline and Caroline's coolly handsome husband, Colonel Rowland Dynham. "Much too wild;' the gossi...
Everyone -- even her doting father -- thinks of Claudine de Trevires as a meek schoolgirl, too innocent to realize what it means to live in French-occupied Luxembourg in 1789. but at a time when another revolution is trying to sweep away the little d...
GEORGIANA ALLISON, A TRADESMAN'S DAUGHTER, HAD ALWAYS HAD HER PRETTY HEAD FILLED WITH ROMANTIC NOTIONS. Then an unexpected proposal of marriage from Sir Miles Dynham brought the exciting world of balls and masquerades and titled wealth within ...
Olivia Thorne was pretty, penniless and unmarried--and likely to stay that way. Because the only man who had ever made her heart beat faster was also penniless; a charming rogue of an Englishman named Lucian who played the piano in public and was a r...
On the eve of 1848 as small revolutions begin all over Europe, thirteen-year-old Catherine Ayre finds herself involved in dangerous political intrigue in the small but troubled country of Letzenstein where her grandfather, the Grand Duke Edmond, is r...
Meriol Trevor The children had passed Jeanne during her struggle and got to the bottom of the steps. They saw that Raf's guards were released from the handcuffs and one of them was locking them on his wrists again so that his hands were behind his ba...
Sun Slower, Sun Faster Meriol Trevor This is an adventure story with a difference -- it is soon after World War II, and Cecil (short for Cecilia) along with her cousin, Rickie, are thrown into a series of adventures that have little to do with the En...
One of the major characters in this novel of a Protestant young woman, and the Roman Catholic she marries, is the inspiring figure of Blessed John Cardinal Newman. In the story of Clem and Augustine, their courtship and marriage, and Clem's conversio...
Among Napoleon's lesser known activities was matchmaking. Alix, widow of the Prince of Montpierre and known for her elegance and intelligence, seemed to the Emperor a good match for one of his most successful generals, Laroche. But Alix is loath to m...
This is a colorful and dramatic story for youth about the life of John Henry Newman, famous British priest, preacher and pastor. To the Birmingham of 1849 comes Emmeline Erle, with her mother, and they are plunged from the sun of the Continent int...
After the Peace of Amiens, Napoleon retaliated against England's renewal of war by holding as prisoners all English civilians in France at the time. So it is in a foreign city, Verdun, and against the uneasy atmosphere of a country at war that Britis...
For Seraphine de Trévires, love would have to wait. It was marriage she longed for - marriage to Dominique d'Erlen, traitor and usurper of his brother's estates. But this was the time of the French revolution; armies were on the march and disaster t...