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Barbara Cartland: Three Complete Novels of Dukes and Their Ladies
Barbara Cartland Three Complete Novels of Dukes and Their Ladies Author:Barbara Cartland The Disgraceful Duke — Shimona was face to face with the notorious Duke of Ravenstone. She had imagined an older man with slanting eyes, arched eyebrows, a long thin nose and pointed ears. But as she looked across the room she saw not the devil she had anticipated, but a surprisingly young, extremely good-looking man. — He looked... more » at her with an expression that made her body tremble and her heart pound wildly. Appalled by her own ecstasy, she blushed and turned from the Duke's penetrating gaze.
Shimona hires herself to pose as the bride of the nephew of the Duke of Ravenstone in order to help him gain his inheritance. It gives her a chance to gain some money to provide for her ailing actor father.
Never Laugh at Love
Anthea Forthingdale had made the most costly mistake of her life.
Granted she needed money to ease her mother and three sisters out of their impoverished existence. And granted Anthea's clever caricatures of London high society had been a smashing success: even the Prince Regent chuckled at her witty, anonymous parodies and a newspaper had offered her ten pounds outright for each drawing.
But to have submitted a caricature of her own alluring young Godmother with her illicit lover, the Duke of Axminster, for publication . . . Really, what had Anthea been thinking of? And now her Godmother's outraged husband was threatening his unfaithful wife with a messy divorce.
There was only one way out of this tempest Anthea had created with her silly scribblings. As the Duke proposed the solution, the poor young girl went cold with dread ...
A Touch of Love
Undercover as a governess in order to stay with her nephew and nieces after the death of their parents in a boating accident, Tamara started to work for their new guardian, the Duke of Granchester.
The Duke's arms went around her and before Tamara realized what was happening his lips were on hers.
For a moment she was still in surprise, then she felt a sudden rapture so wonderful that she knew this was what she had been seeking.
"Oh my darling," the Duke said hoarsely. "I love you."
"I... love you!" she whispered.
Then, even as she spoke she remembered the unforgettable things she had written about him before she had come to love him. An icy hand gripped her heart as she tore herself from his embrace and raced suddenly to her room.« less