The Eternal Collection Series by Barbara Cartland
The Eternal Collection #289
Desire in the Desert
Barbara Cartland
Dashing Druce Pevel, the Marquis of Peverell, Lord of all he surveys, with women falling at his feet...A pair of money-grabbing, murderous cousins bent on bleeding him dry – or even dead...Shamara, an innocent, yet strangely exotic, Missionary's daughter, plucked from an orphanage to become the Marquis's ward...A bewildered Shamara finds herself voyaging aboard his yacht to Senegal – where it's the Marquis's turn to be bewildered when they're kidnapped by a tribal chieftain and held for ransom in his kasbah...At first he is mystified... How is it that this innocent abroad knows the ways of the Africans – even speaks their language. How has she such wisdom beyond her tender years? Then, as he watches over her sleeping in their kasbah prison, Druce is suddenly smitten – and taken aback by the fierceness and passion with which he swears, "I will kill anyone who hurts her!"
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The Eternal Collection #290
The Lovely Liar
Barbara Cartland
Two fair-haired, blue-eyed beauties named Noella whose destinies are intertwined before they're even born... One lives the high life in Europe with her mother and her rakish lover while the other leads a sheltered, quiet life... Until, alone, penniless and desperate, a beguiling stranger lures her into a web of deceit from which there's no escape. Posing as her now-dead namesake, Noella Wakefield ingratiates herself with her estranged 'brother', the handsome but bitter Earl of Ravensdale. Too late, she realises that she is part of a murderous plot – and then, after saving him from a dagger-wielding assassin, she realises she's in love. But how could the Earl ever love a liar? And how can true love be based on a lie?
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The Eternal Collection #294
The Bitter winds of Love
Barbara Cartland
Life has not been kind to Lydia Bryant – and love has been downright cruel. Orphaned at 16 and brought up by her uncle, a Shropshire Rector, she marries Donald, a handsome soldier many years her senior at 21. But tragedy strikes once more as his terrifyingly violent mood-swings are revealed, condemning her to a lifetime of torture and torment.So when Donald dies, some 6 years later, her first thought is that she is free at last! Free of her hateful husband, but facing a life without love. Throwing off the shackles of stiflingly shallow English Society, Lydia embarks on a thrilling adventure – and, from genteel Malvern via the heat and hustle of Cairo, she finds herself in the parched and primitive Sudan – surely the last place on Earth anyone would hope to find love?
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