SHE PASSED THROUGH THE GATEWAY OF OPPORTUNITY INTO A WORLD OF DANGEROUS DESIRE When young parlormaid Sarah Donnelly saved the child of the aristocratic Ingham clan from drowning, she received the most enticing yet perilous of rewards. This lovely, u...
SHE HAD SOLD HERSELF FOR THEIR COLD SPARKLE... They had a sumptuous suite, in the finest hotel in Nice. the fireplace glowed, the big bed waited. It was their wedding night, but first Robert wanted to show her the Firth jewels. Kneeling beside Lil...
Italy -- it was where Maria Verzotto was born and where secret societies, ruled by the man they called "the Lion;' controlled her family's fate. From here, with her heritage locked deep in her heart, destiny would toss Maria from poverty ...
Once upon a time Lucy would have agreed with her father. But now, won over by her mother's memories - of Patmore, the family estate; of Gervase, her first love; of a past never less than perfect - she wouldn't dream of criticising the yearly ritual o...
'I didn't realise that for want of one person the world could be meaningless.' Blissfully in love for the first time, seventeen-year-old Polly thus confides to her grandmother, Muff. And these words could equally well have been spoken by Muff, or Pol...
An outstanding novel of romance and grief in the aftermath of the Great War From a comfortable childhood in Edwardian Yorkshire, through the pain and grief of the First World War, Edwina dreamed of Men on White Horses. But the Age of Chivalry was dea...
Christabel Woodward is the darling of her prosperous, mill-owning father until one day he has a sudden and bewildering change of heart. He has read her mother's story, written in three exercise books and usually kept well hidden, and he knows her sec...