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Three Complete Novels of Courtly Love: The Prude and the Prodigal / Lies for Love / From Hate to Love
Three Complete Novels of Courtly Love The Prude and the Prodigal / Lies for Love / From Hate to Love Author:Barbara Cartland The Prude and the Prodigal — "I think Prunella," the Earl said slowly, "you are offering me a challenge." — "I do not...know what you are...talking about," Purnella replied. — "I am talking about love, and of course, your ignorance of it." — To Prunella's astonishment, the Earl's arms ... more »were around her. He pulled her against him an his lips were on hers. She felt a strange sensation she had never known before rise within her. She felt as if time and place had ceased to exist, that her feet were no longer on the ground. As she tried to come back to Earth, she heard the Earl say:
"How soon will you marry me so that I can continue to teach you about love?"
Lies for Love
Suddenly and unexpectedly, there was the sound of the bolt being raised on the door, and Carmela sat up, alert and half-fearful that it might be Matthews or Lane returning. Then as the sunlight flooded in she saw the outline of a man, large and broad-shouldered, silhouetted against the trees outside, and she gave a cry of joy. Then the Earl was beside her, pulling her into his arms.
She held on to him, saying incoherently, her words falling over one another: "You have... found... me! I... prayed that... you would... come! I was... so afraid... that I would... die before... you did."
"I have found you," the Earl said. Then as tears of relief ran down Carmela's cheeks, his lips came down on hers and he held her mouth captive...
From Hate to Love
Horribly wounded after robbers murdered her dear father and left her for dead, the lovely young Atayla is alone and destitute in Morocco at the Tangiers Mission. So when her only friend, Father Ignatius, tells her of a French lady, the Comtesse de Soisson, who wishes to pay someone to escort her young daughter home to her estranged father, the Earl of Rothwell, she jumps at the opportunity. After a long and tiring journey, she arrives unannounced at Roth Castle with young Felicity and Atayla is dismayed by the violent unwelcoming reception she receives from the dashing but disdainful Earl, who assumes that she has some shady ulterior motive in coming to The Castle. Atayla is at the mercy of a man who hates her and soon it seems she is to be banished from The Castle and from the young girl she has come to care for. But then the Earl's passions are inflamed in a terrible misunderstanding and his hate is suddenly transformed to an all-consuming love.« less