Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178213560X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
While her father is away from home, the beautiful but lonely Ursa Hollington is surprised to receive a visit from Penelope, her sister, who has been such a stranger since she married a rich Nobleman and moved to London.Ursa is even more surprised when she hears PenelopeÕs request!So Penelope can meet her lover in a secret tryst while her husband, Lord Brackley is abroad, Ursa reluctantly agrees to pretend to be Penelope and stay with Lord BrackleyÕs blind mother, the Dowager Lady BrackleyPowdered and rouged just like her coquettish sister, Ursa is accepted at the imposing Brackley Park.But then the dashing Marquis of Charnwood embroils her in yet another deception, posing as his fiance to save him from a loveless marriage to the daughter of a Greek he is doing business with.When the amorous Marquis appears at her bedside one night, Ursa is horrified, but soon finds the fluttering in her heart is not fear but love ÐTangled in not one but two falsehoods, she can see no way out, until it comes to light that the Dowager Lady Brackley is far more perceptive that she thought!Ê
The Innocent Imposter
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178213560X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
While her father is away from home, the beautiful but lonely Ursa Hollington is surprised to receive a visit from Penelope, her sister, who has been such a stranger since she married a rich Nobleman and moved to London.Ursa is even more surprised when she hears PenelopeÕs request!So Penelope can meet her lover in a secret tryst while her husband, Lord Brackley is abroad, Ursa reluctantly agrees to pretend to be Penelope and stay with Lord BrackleyÕs blind mother, the Dowager Lady BrackleyPowdered and rouged just like her coquettish sister, Ursa is accepted at the imposing Brackley Park.But then the dashing Marquis of Charnwood embroils her in yet another deception, posing as his fiance to save him from a loveless marriage to the daughter of a Greek he is doing business with.When the amorous Marquis appears at her bedside one night, Ursa is horrified, but soon finds the fluttering in her heart is not fear but love ÐTangled in not one but two falsehoods, she can see no way out, until it comes to light that the Dowager Lady Brackley is far more perceptive that she thought!Ê
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178213560X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
While her father is away from home, the beautiful but lonely Ursa Hollington is surprised to receive a visit from Penelope, her sister, who has been such a stranger since she married a rich Nobleman and moved to London.Ursa is even more surprised when she hears PenelopeÕs request!So Penelope can meet her lover in a secret tryst while her husband, Lord Brackley is abroad, Ursa reluctantly agrees to pretend to be Penelope and stay with Lord BrackleyÕs blind mother, the Dowager Lady BrackleyPowdered and rouged just like her coquettish sister, Ursa is accepted at the imposing Brackley Park.But then the dashing Marquis of Charnwood embroils her in yet another deception, posing as his fiance to save him from a loveless marriage to the daughter of a Greek he is doing business with.When the amorous Marquis appears at her bedside one night, Ursa is horrified, but soon finds the fluttering in her heart is not fear but love ÐTangled in not one but two falsehoods, she can see no way out, until it comes to light that the Dowager Lady Brackley is far more perceptive that she thought!Ê
The Innocent Imposter
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502327482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
When her father, the Grand Duke, tells the lovely young Princess Tora of Radoslav that she is to marry the aged King of Salona, she is appalled and horrified. But no amount of pleading by her will change her father's mind. So Tora decides that she must find a way to see her prospective husband without his being aware of her presence and then try to find a way to escape her awful Fate. Since she is a talented musician, she has little difficulty in persuading her dear friend, Professor Lazar Srejovic, the nation's greatest musician, to allow her to join his famous quartet for a concert at the King of Salona's Palace.She devises a cunning plan to escape from the Palace of Radoslav, so that her father cannot stop her and joins up secretly with the Professor's quartet to travel by carriage to Maglic, the Capital of Salona. But on arriving at an inn on the way disguised in peasant dress, she is terrified to unexpectantly overhear a sinister plot to murder and violently overthrow the King of Salona and seize his country by force. Her life is now in danger, but, when a dashing and handsome stranger comes to her rescue when she is hiding in a wood near the inn, she loses her heart to him utterly in a moment and just as quickly loses all hope that they can ever be together.And her future is sealed for ever with no hope of love and happiness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502327482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
When her father, the Grand Duke, tells the lovely young Princess Tora of Radoslav that she is to marry the aged King of Salona, she is appalled and horrified. But no amount of pleading by her will change her father's mind. So Tora decides that she must find a way to see her prospective husband without his being aware of her presence and then try to find a way to escape her awful Fate. Since she is a talented musician, she has little difficulty in persuading her dear friend, Professor Lazar Srejovic, the nation's greatest musician, to allow her to join his famous quartet for a concert at the King of Salona's Palace.She devises a cunning plan to escape from the Palace of Radoslav, so that her father cannot stop her and joins up secretly with the Professor's quartet to travel by carriage to Maglic, the Capital of Salona. But on arriving at an inn on the way disguised in peasant dress, she is terrified to unexpectantly overhear a sinister plot to murder and violently overthrow the King of Salona and seize his country by force. Her life is now in danger, but, when a dashing and handsome stranger comes to her rescue when she is hiding in a wood near the inn, she loses her heart to him utterly in a moment and just as quickly loses all hope that they can ever be together.And her future is sealed for ever with no hope of love and happiness.
The supposed daughter: or, Innocent imposter [signed P.R.].
Imposter
Author: Antony John
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN: 0803741243
Category : Actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Seth Crane can't believe his luck when he lands his first big movie role, but when secrets only Seth knows--things his costars told him in confidence--start showing up in tabloids, it quickly becomes clear that nothing in Hollywood is as it seems"--
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN: 0803741243
Category : Actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Seth Crane can't believe his luck when he lands his first big movie role, but when secrets only Seth knows--things his costars told him in confidence--start showing up in tabloids, it quickly becomes clear that nothing in Hollywood is as it seems"--
An Innocent Impostor, and Other Stories
Ghost Park
Author: Marliese Arold
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
ISBN: 9780735820999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Max and his best friend Sophie are hired to help in the gardens of a castle, but soon discover that there is much more to the job than they expected as the entrance to the garden appears and disappears, and the topiary comes to life in unexpected and frightening ways.
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
ISBN: 9780735820999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Max and his best friend Sophie are hired to help in the gardens of a castle, but soon discover that there is much more to the job than they expected as the entrance to the garden appears and disappears, and the topiary comes to life in unexpected and frightening ways.
Real Love or Fake
Author: Barbara Cartland
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788671910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Handsome, athletic and pursued by women wherever he goes, it is hardly surprising that the tall striking Marquis of Kyneston succumbs to the temptation in London of a married beauty called Daphne Burton. Finding out purely by chance that she intends to entrap and blackmail him in a cynical plot, he decides that he must escape the Society world and so he heads off in his yacht for The Hague in Holland in search of great Dutch art to complete his prestigious Picture Gallery, which the King himself is taking considerable interest in. In the meantime someone else is also destined for the Dutch City at the same time. Beautiful young Lela Cavendish is mourning her mother’s death when her stepfather, Sir Robert Lawson, sends for her. Arriving at the family estate she is appalled to find that he has arranged for her to marry a wealthy much older and extremely unpleasant man whom she has only met twice let alone loves. Lela and her beloved Nanny flee to Holland to throw themselves on the mercy of her ailing aunt, the Baroness van Alnrardt. And soon in The Hague’s Mauritshuis Museum Fate strikes when an art dealer stops to admire Lela’s excellent copy of Vermeer’s Head of a Young Girl and suggests to Lela a terrifying course of action. And that is to defraud the famously handsome Marquis of Kyneston with her copy of the Vermeer Masterpiece. But she and the Marquis find out soon enough that there other attractions in Holland besides Dutch paintings.
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788671910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Handsome, athletic and pursued by women wherever he goes, it is hardly surprising that the tall striking Marquis of Kyneston succumbs to the temptation in London of a married beauty called Daphne Burton. Finding out purely by chance that she intends to entrap and blackmail him in a cynical plot, he decides that he must escape the Society world and so he heads off in his yacht for The Hague in Holland in search of great Dutch art to complete his prestigious Picture Gallery, which the King himself is taking considerable interest in. In the meantime someone else is also destined for the Dutch City at the same time. Beautiful young Lela Cavendish is mourning her mother’s death when her stepfather, Sir Robert Lawson, sends for her. Arriving at the family estate she is appalled to find that he has arranged for her to marry a wealthy much older and extremely unpleasant man whom she has only met twice let alone loves. Lela and her beloved Nanny flee to Holland to throw themselves on the mercy of her ailing aunt, the Baroness van Alnrardt. And soon in The Hague’s Mauritshuis Museum Fate strikes when an art dealer stops to admire Lela’s excellent copy of Vermeer’s Head of a Young Girl and suggests to Lela a terrifying course of action. And that is to defraud the famously handsome Marquis of Kyneston with her copy of the Vermeer Masterpiece. But she and the Marquis find out soon enough that there other attractions in Holland besides Dutch paintings.
The Impostor Prince (Mills & Boon Historical)
Author: Tanya Anne Crosby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472040678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A deception of royal proportions
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472040678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A deception of royal proportions
Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 153872474X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 153872474X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Barefoot
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316007269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness—three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope with life's challenges. Three women—burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues—tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at last—but only after learning that her husband is having an affair. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn. Barefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scope—a novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316007269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness—three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope with life's challenges. Three women—burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues—tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Brenda, has just left her job after being caught in an affair with a student. And their friend Melanie, after seven failed in vitro attempts, is pregnant at last—but only after learning that her husband is having an affair. They have come to escape, enjoy the sun, and relax in Nantucket's calming air. But into the house, into their world, steps twenty-two-year-old Josh Flynn. Barefoot weaves these four lives together in a story with enthralling sweep and scope—a novel that is as fun and memorable and bittersweet as that one perfect day of summer.