Author: Elizabeth Reed Publisher: LB Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 79
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Pure Romance Collection Part 1 & 2 8 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these short stories can all be bought as a standalone single story, as well as in parts 1 and 2. Total word count 46,016. To Love a Difficult Man Natalie works as a personal assistant for Sam Stewart, a famous and successful artist. Sam has always been difficult to work and live with, but Natalie is grateful to him for giving her the job, which has provided her with valuable work experience and an opportunity to travel the world. The Persistent Billionaire Joshua Fisher is a billionaire businessman who, without fail, every week eats at Karen and her father’s café. Over time, Karen has become on more familiar terms with Joshua, although she is keen to keep him at arm’s length whenever she feels unsettled by his presence. Husband Material Richard and Caroline have been friends for many years now, having once been very close when they lived together as flat mates. As the years have gone by and they have stayed in contact, Richard finally realises that Caroline means a lot to him: She is the only woman that he has ever loved and cared about. All he has to do now is convince Caroline to his own way of thinking and win her over! Running from Mr Adonis Christina is totally in awe of Gregory Brown aka Mr Adonis. Every time she is near him, she is reduced to a giddy teenager, which makes things slightly awkward for her as his personal shopper! The Surprise Date After celebrating her best friend Helen’s wedding, Julia is making an effort to improve her love life. Having signed up for online dating months ago, she now thinks she has met someone special – a man called Dean, who might just be able to claim her heart. Getting the Boss’s Attention From the moment Helen set eyes on her boss, Ben, she knew they were destined to end up together. The only problem was that getting Ben’s attention proved to be an extremely difficult task to accomplish. His entire focus seemed to be fixed on his work, with socialising not a priority in his life. The Secret Billionaire Jessica meets an extremely handsome stranger while sitting and minding her own business on the train. The Reluctant Damsel in Distress Both Annabel and Gavin find their lives changing the moment they dramatically meet after Gavin nearly runs her over in the middle of the road!
Author: Elizabeth Reed Publisher: Lori Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Pure Romance Collection Part One: 4 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these stories can be bought as a standalone separate story. Total word count 23,267. To Love a Difficult Man Natalie works as a personal assistant for Sam Stewart, a famous and successful artist. Sam has always been difficult to work and live with, but Natalie is grateful to him for giving her the job, which has provided her with valuable work experience and an opportunity to travel the world. But now after two years, Natalie wants to leave Sam’s employment and plan for her long-term future. Sam is not impressed by her resignation, and tells her as much! Used to getting his way in all things, he is taken by surprise when Natalie challenges his wishes. Then to make their relationship even more complicated, they share a passionate moment in New York, which changes things between them. Will Natalie be able to acknowledge the real reason why she wants to put as much distance between Sam and herself? And will Sam admit what’s behind his deep frustration and do something about it… before it’s too late? The Persistent Billionaire Joshua Fisher is a billionaire businessman who, without fail, every week eats at Karen and her father’s café. Over time, Karen has become on more familiar terms with Joshua, although she is keen to keep him at arm’s length whenever she feels unsettled by his presence. But now she can no longer avoid a confrontation with Joshua as he proposes to buy out her father from his business, which has been a labour of love and hard work for her Dad for over twenty years. Karen’s father becomes distressed with the news, with the result that Karen sees no alternative but to march to Joshua’s office and appeal to him to forget about his plans, despite the fact that Joshua has an annoying habit of unnerving her at the best of times. Now Karen is to find that by letting her guard down and facing Joshua directly, she has opened up a new exciting opportunity that may just lead to her own happiness! Husband Material Richard and Caroline have been friends for many years now, having once been very close when they lived together as flat mates. As the years have gone by and they have stayed in contact, Richard finally realises that Caroline means a lot to him: She is the only woman that he has ever loved and cared about. All he has to do now is convince Caroline to his own way of thinking and win her over! Richard’s mission will not be easy. Caroline already has set notions about him not being husband material. But even she cannot deny the mental and physical chemistry that they share between them. And it may be only a matter of time before she realises her own true feelings! Running from Mr Adonis Christina is totally in awe of Gregory Brown aka Mr Adonis. Every time she is near him, she is reduced to a giddy teenager, which makes things slightly awkward for her as his personal shopper! Now even more nerve wracking, she has accepted an invitation to his exclusive party. There, she competes with her friend Becky, who is equally smitten with Gregory, to win his attention. What follows from the party leaves Christina completely confused. Gregory makes a confession that he has fallen hard for her, after seeing her from the shop window where she works some time ago. But how can his declaration be true, after Becky makes it known to her that Gregory spent the night with her and the next morning! Could Gregory really be a liar and womaniser? With her preference for an easier, drama free life, can Christina really let her defences down and run away from the intense feelings that appear to exist between both Gregory and her, and instead accept them and fight for a possible future together?
Author: Elizabeth Reed Publisher: LB Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Pure Romance Collection Part Three 4 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these stories can be bought as a standalone separate story. Total word count 14,866. Roommates Zoe is having no luck at all on the dating scene. Thinking of the cause of all her relationship woes she is confronted with a truth that she does not want to acknowledge. That her single status is all because she is in love with her handsome and charismatic roommate Tom. The Long Crush Stacy has held a crush ever since her teen years for Jason, her brother’s best friend. But with no definite signs that her affections are reciprocated, she has given up on any hope of Jason seeing her as anything more than his best mate’s little sister. Well, that was until she spends a short time living all alone with Jason, which does not allow either one of them any place to hide from each other or their inner feelings. The Blind Date Meghan turns up at a fancy restaurant reluctant to meet her blind date. However, she is pleasantly surprised to find Dean, a handsome, charismatic business owner introducing himself to her. But just when she thinks her evening may not go quite as bad and awkward as she anticipated, of all the people to show their face who should walk into the very same restaurant that she and Dean are sitting in but her ex-boyfriend along with his new girlfriend?! Meghan believes that her date could not get any worse. But she may just have underestimated Dean and his abilities to save their evening from disaster. Inviting Mr Scrooge For Christmas When Cynthia’s handsome boss James reveals his intention to spend the festive season all alone, she knows she must do something immediately. Cynthia sees it as her duty to show James just how great Christmas can be. However unbeknownst to Cynthia her attempt to regain the Christmas spirit within James will also bring them closer together.
Author: Elizabeth Reed Publisher: LB Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 39
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Pure Romance Collection Part Two 4 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these stories can be bought as a standalone separate story. Total word count 22,717. The Surprise Date After celebrating her best friend Helen’s wedding, Julia is making an effort to improve her love life. Having signed up for online dating months ago, she now thinks she has met someone special – a man called Dean, who might just be able to claim her heart. This is more than a relief to Julia, as she is trying to avoid all contact with Helen’s brother Mark. Julia has a complicated history with Mark, who has a profound, unnerving effect on her senses. Putting the issue of Mark behind her, Julia waits at a coffee bar to meet Dean in the flesh at last. To her surprise and horror, Dean is very different from what she had imagined…. Getting the Boss’s Attention From the moment Helen set eyes on her boss, Ben, she knew they were destined to end up together. The only problem was that getting Ben’s attention proved to be an extremely difficult task to accomplish. His entire focus seemed to be fixed on his work, with socialising not a priority in his life. Then, an invitation arrives for a charity ball, and to Helen’s surprise, Ben announces that they should attend together. She wonders if this could be just the opportunity she has been waiting for, to bring them closer. But Helen’s hopes seem to be in vain with the charity ball a disaster from beginning to end, and Helen eventually pushed into an outburst. This makes her start to question her feelings about Ben in the first place, and whether all her hard work in getting his attention and affection were ever worth her efforts! The Secret Billionaire Jessica meets an extremely handsome stranger while sitting and minding her own business on the train. But the stranger seems determined to strike up a conversation and gain Jessica’s attention. On their journey together, he tells her that his name is Paul and that he finds her beautiful, all before asking her out on a date. Now, some women would have been flattered by such a compliment, but not Jessica! She has sworn off any interest in men and is less than impressed by a pass being made at her, and rudely tells Paul her thoughts on the matter before they part ways. The next day, the scene between Paul and herself plays in her mind and Jessica wonders if she had been too harsh with her words to him, but she puts her feelings of guilt aside taking comfort in the fact that she will never see the stranger again. Unfortunately, she finds out the hard way that fate sometimes throws people together, and to her surprise and horror she meets Paul again at the hotel where she works. This time around, she becomes aware that the stranger is no other than Mr Paul Truman who is a billionaire. What’s even more surprising is that fact that Paul seems even more determined than ever to prove that he is just the man for her! The Reluctant Damsel in Distress Both Annabel and Gavin find their lives changing the moment they dramatically meet after Gavin nearly runs her over in the middle of the road! Gavin insists on taking Annabel home after she is shaken by the event, and there, he is met by her matchmaking mother just before finding out on the same visit that Annabel is in need of much help as the bailiffs in his presence give her forty-eight hours to pay off her debts to them otherwise Annabel’s possessions will be confiscated. Annabel feels uncomfortable that Gavin is aware of her problem, but worse is to come when he takes it upon himself to pay off her debts, and she finds that she now owes him instead of the bailiffs and so is at his mercy! Now Annabel finds herself working hard to pay back Gavin’s money, but even more difficult for her is her fight to resist the obvious attraction they share between them.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Author: Elizabeth Reed Publisher: LB Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Pure Romance Collection Part Three 4 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these stories can be bought as a standalone separate story. Total word count 14,866. Roommates Zoe is having no luck at all on the dating scene. Thinking of the cause of all her relationship woes she is confronted with a truth that she does not want to acknowledge. That her single status is all because she is in love with her handsome and charismatic roommate Tom. The Long Crush Stacy has held a crush ever since her teen years for Jason, her brother’s best friend. But with no definite signs that her affections are reciprocated, she has given up on any hope of Jason seeing her as anything more than his best mate’s little sister. Well, that was until she spends a short time living all alone with Jason, which does not allow either one of them any place to hide from each other or their inner feelings. The Blind Date Meghan turns up at a fancy restaurant reluctant to meet her blind date. However, she is pleasantly surprised to find Dean, a handsome, charismatic business owner introducing himself to her. But just when she thinks her evening may not go quite as bad and awkward as she anticipated, of all the people to show their face who should walk into the very same restaurant that she and Dean are sitting in but her ex-boyfriend along with his new girlfriend?! Meghan believes that her date could not get any worse. But she may just have underestimated Dean and his abilities to save their evening from disaster. Inviting Mr Scrooge For Christmas When Cynthia’s handsome boss James reveals his intention to spend the festive season all alone, she knows she must do something immediately. Cynthia sees it as her duty to show James just how great Christmas can be. However unbeknownst to Cynthia her attempt to regain the Christmas spirit within James will also bring them closer together.
Author: Barbara Cartland Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd ISBN: 1788675878 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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A shy English Rose blossoms into an exotic bird of paradise in this thrillingly romantic twist on the tale of Cinderella. With her slender, graceful, almost elfin beauty, Odetta may not look like a Cinderella but it’s she who must stay at home while her aristocratic friend is dressed by the great couturiers and dances at Society balls. That is, until she’s whisked to Paris as her friend’s lady’s maid – and, on a crazy impulse, borrows a fabulous dress and a mask and slips unnoticed into a Venetian Masked Ball. As she’s marvelling at the whirling waltzes, Chinese lanterns and glamorously costumed guests, a tall, handsome masked and cloaked man asks, ‘Are you waiting for some laggard partner or have you just dropped down from the sky to bemuse us poor mortals?’ Cinderella has gone to the ball! No longer ‘Miss Nobody from Nowhere’, she lives the dream, playing the part of a French Princesse and quickly finding her feet in the fashionable world… But just as quickly she loses her heart to her masked hero – and her impossible dream becomes a nightmare because her new life and love is all a lie.
Author: Barbara Cartland Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd ISBN: 1782135871 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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How can beautiful young Fedora Colwyn and her ailing father be on the verge of starvation when the walls of their run-down home are hung with a magnificent collection of paintings by the great Masters? Alexander Colwyn is renowned as the nation’s greatest restorer of pictures and his valuable works of art are in trust for future generations and so cannot be sold. Fedora is desperate, not knowing where to turn or how to restore her beloved father to health with virtually no money, but she has a loyal ally in Jim, who has looked after the family for many years. So, when the Earl of Heversham invites her father to restore the pictures in his famous collection at Heversham Castle, but knows that her father is too proud to accept payment and that he is too ill to do very much, she will undertake most of the restoration work herself. She takes him to Heversham Castle, intending to accept payment without telling him about it. There she meets the handsome Earl and falls helplessly in love, only to find that a conceited and treacherous Society beauty and a dark family secret stand in the way of their love.But, when she is embroiled in a sinister murder plot, her life as well as her love is at stake.
Author: Barbara Cartland Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd ISBN: 1782137211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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The father of the demure but beautiful Iola Herne, an imperious Army General not given to romance or sentiment, is overjoyed to receive a request for her hand in marriage from the ageing Lord Stoneham, the Lord Lieutenant of the County and the scion of local Society.But Iola is appalled by the prospect of marrying an old man whom she does not and never could love.To escape her Fate she runs away to seek the advice of her beloved Nanny - only to find that that Nanny herself is on the brink of a new adventure with an exciting new job caring for a young heiress on a luxury yacht in the glamorous South of France.Tragically, though, Nanny dies in the night and, on an impulse, Iola takes her job and travels to Monte Carlo in her place.Instantly she is captivated by her charge, the precocious five year old Lucy - but dislikes her handsome but haughty father, the wealthy Sir Wolfe Renton, who is dismissive of Iola's inspiring ideas of teaching his daughter and abrasive in his tone.But, when Lucy is kidnapped by French vagabonds, it is Iola who holds the key to her rescue and, as he then suddenly realises, to his heart!
Author: Barbara Cartland Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd ISBN: 1788670914 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 122
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On his return after six years’ fighting with the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars, Colonel Romney Wood, who has just become Lord Heywood, is horrified at the state of the country he left behind, where agricultural labourers are now starving, food shops are bare and Luddites lay waste new agricultural machinery. Worse still his own estate is almost bankrupt and he has to find something to sell to save it and his loyal staff from penury. He is considerably hampered because his grandfather has legally entailed everything of value onto future generations of Lord Heywoods and so he cannot dispose of virtually anything without the Trustees’ approval, which he knows will not be forthcoming. Scouring Heywood Abbey, his country home, for possible items to sell, he is astonished when he stumbles across something he is soon to prize beyond price – a beautiful, fawn-like young girl with deep blue eyes in a white diaphanous nightgown. She is an interloper and a runaway, hiding from her wicked uncle, who is forcing her into marriage with a man she despises. Her name is Lalita. But more than that she will not tell Lord Heywood. Yet slowly she reveals more of herself to him – and with each revelation the bond between them grows. And in spite of himself Lord Heywood is falling in love. They are two people with nothing left to lose and maybe only love to win.
Author: Elizabeth Reed
Author: Elizabeth Reed
Author: Elizabeth Reed
Author: Elizabeth Reed
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Author: Barbara Cartland
Author: Barbara Cartland
Author: Barbara Cartland
Author: Barbara Cartland