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This is more than a historical romance, for it illustrates the cronyism of mid-19th Century Britain, its class divisions and snobbery, where high position was not necessarily correlated with ability, or even common sense, and in which woman were beginning to make their mark, but not necessarily through common cause and co-operation, but in the kind of rivalry and conflict that characterised the nursing recruits to the Crimean War, one of whom was Daisy Ashton. Daisy knows little about her origins or how she came to live under the guardianship of the Marquess of Chantry, until an overheard ...

Lady Elizabeth Allgreave is a cool customer, proud of her independence and determined to prove she can manage Trentmere House and its surrounding estate. But, following her grandmother’s death, she becomes aware of the full extent of the estate’s neglect and sorry financial state. She must seek help or lose it. When the odious Sir Geoffrey Griseley reappears in her life, threatening to take it all away, she has little choice but to accept the services of the mysterious stranger who comes calling. Christopher Blake, not for the first time, is running for his life. He takes refuge in a ...

In the summer of 1889 15 year old Sam Masters rescues 8-year-old Lady Olivia Susannah Charlton from a Cornish cove. He’s only interested in a smuggling mystery, she only cares for her precious doll. Sadness awaits each of them back home for Sam’s father has died in mysterious circumstances and Olivia’s father has disappeared. Sixteen years later, Sam has become a senior customs officer. Olivia’s seemingly conventional life as a writer of children’s fiction masks a secret passion for speed and risk-taking, fed by the devil-may-care Harold Jenkins, whose family now lives in ...

Money for Millennials provides you with the basic tools you need to manage your life and plan for your future financially. You will learn to manage every aspect of your personal finances, as well as strengthen your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments.

Lady Susannah Thistlewood is determined never to marry, but to devote herself to charitable endeavours to help those less fortunate than herself. She is fairly confident no one will offer for her anyway. For a start, she has resisted being presented, added to which, she has a reputation for being somewhat outspoken and behaving inappropriately in society. Attending a friend’s wedding, she encounters Sir Edward Derringham, who has recently finished with his latest mistress and is open to new possibilities. When Susannah’s thoughtless behaviour causes him to land in undignified fashion in...

Beatrice leaves behind her life and job in London to stay with her great aunt Jane, her only remaining relative. Being mixed race in the early eighties is not so unusual in the big city, but in the north she does rather stand out as different and wonders if she’ll be able to get work. As it happens there’s an aristocratic lady who needs a typist and is delighted to discover Beatrice’s half-African roots, when at last Beatrice manages to get there. She is somewhat late for her interview, which happens to fall on the day the snowy winter of 1981/2 begins. Beatrice’s car gets stuck in ...

Anna knows little of love, but dutifully travels to South Africa to marry a man twice her age, her father’s choice. When he dies and the family disowns her, there’s no money to bring her home, and she must find a way to survive. Set in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and its aftermath, Anna’s story is one of transformation as she leaves behind her privileged upbringing and devotes herself to supporting homeless Boer families. More than once she encounters army vet James Forsyth, whom she believes despises her. So, when the war ends and he unexpectedly inherits a title and lands and asks ...

A sexy Regency tale, in which the poverty-stricken daughter of a bankrupt baronet, imprisoned for debt, encounters an earl, who’s on the look-out for a new mistress. Once he’s settled that, he will find a suitably submissive wife to do the necessary in producing an heir. Things get confusing when he realises she could fill either role. Neither must he forget that it is she who has the power of refusal. NEW: AUDIO BOOK with British accents for the UK reader, obtainable from Amazon.com

FINALIST! in 2018 Romantic Novel Awards: Lady Gwendolen Ashworth is an outspoken young woman, with strong opinions on social justice and a cynical view about marriage, which she eschews. She is an embarrassment to her brother, the Earl of Middleton, who is disappointed that none of the eligible young men in Regency society seem willing to take her off his hands. When one of his stable-hands is arrested, Gwendolen secretly hires the handsome Sir Thomas Carnforth, a highly successful barrister with a mysterious past, to defend the boy. This unleashes a chain of events Gwendolen did not ...

Over ten years have passed since Joanna fled her Yorkshire home in distress and shame. Now aged twenty-eight, she is established in London society. But she also has a secret life known to few. How unfortunate that she should come to the notice of Detective Inspector Matthew Harcourt, a senior member of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch. His all-seeing eyes miss nothing. How long can she deceive him as to her real identity? If he discovers the truth, her work is over, along with her means of support and her claims on the neat Georgian house that is her home. When he commissions her to...

Francis Hampton, Duke of Abbeywell, rarely has cause to smile. Family responsibilities not only rule his life, they have also driven away the earl’s daughter he was to wed. When an unknown young woman suddenly turns up at his estate in Berkshire, he is suspicious and determines to investigate her origins. Charlotte Fielding is everything he is not, happy-go-lucky, cheerful in adversity, ever ready to see the good in all, and poor. Her arrival coincides with the start of six weeks of severe winter weather, confining most of the population to home, including the occupants of Abbeywell Park...

An indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in pregnancy and childbirth. After decades of research into how babies develop in the womb, Susan J. Fisher, PhD, shares her expert advice to empower expecting parents. Complete with helpful illustrations, practical tips, and the essential questions to ask health-care providers, here is everything you need to take charge of your health and your baby’s.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Harriet Thomson has resided with a distant cousin’s aristocratic household since the age of five, first as companion to Prudence, the youngest daughter of house, later as carer of Pru’s ailing father. When he dies, she has to make her own way in the world and finds work as companion to the elderly Countess Arden, who resides in the Dower House on the Hertfordshire estate of the dashingly handsome Duke of Fairbridge.

These powerful stories of people who have make past life journeys illustrate how connecting to the past has transformed their present lives and introduces you to the possibilities of how Regression Therapy can support your own healing and transformation.

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Vanessa Templeton’s life is ruled by her aunt and uncle, who took over title, house, and estate following her father’s death. With no intention of escaping to marriage, she avoids society as much as possible. Following a rare visit to London to see an elderly aunt, she encounters an illiterate, ex-seaman who looks suitable for the footman’s position her aunt has been trying to fill, so she takes him home.

In the summer of ’75, listening to the Commodores, Barry Manilow, and Linda Ronstadt on her transistor radio is the highlight of Eden Randall’s day. Unfortunately, there is no groovy stereo in her room, no television set in the house, or anything else deemed “worldly” on the quaint, little farm Eden calls home. Her father is a preacher for their church, “The Assembly,” and the members don’t believe in those kinds of things. No, they certainly do not. Eden and her cousin Paul have spent sixteen years riding bikes in the country, playing games of croquet in the front yard, and ...

The Lentz Leadership Institute presents this collection of the works of ten scholarly authors affiliated with various institutions of higher learning to include topics such as: Change Management: The Role of Leaders to Prevent Workplace Bullying (Dr. Judy Fisher-Blando),; Change Agents: Building Bridges over Resistance (Dr. Thomas M. Woodruff), Change Agent Attributes: Pillars of Leadership Effectiveness (Dr. Lisa M. Kangas); The Relationship Between Values and Leadership Styles (Dr. Nicholas D. Sarantopoulos); Becoming an Agent of Transformation (Dr. Armando Salas-Amaro Jr.); Defining a ...

A traditional Regency tale, in which the so-called footman’s daughter, with the encouragement of a handsome naval captain who comes into her life by chance, learns the truth of her origins and begins to take charge of her own destiny. But will her future include him? NEW: AUDIO BOOK with British accents for the UK reader, obtainable from Amazon.com

A traditional Regency tale, in which an innocent rector’s daughter runs from the squire of the manor only to fall into the clutches of a handsome former army major who has just inherited a dukedom and whisks her off to his remote castle in Scotland. Light-hearted and a little bit sexy, a relaxing holiday read. NEW: AUDIO BOOK with British accents for the UK reader, obtainable from Amazon.com

Penelope Clayton knows a lot more about sanitary engineering than she does about polite society. When her father sends her to London to stay with a well-connected cousin, she has little expectation of securing the society marriage he would like, for she’s never been taught to curtsey, nor can she dance a step. Despite these shortcomings, her natural aristocratic grace, with the help of some beautiful new gowns, ensures she catches the eye of apparent reprobate Lord Alexander Forsyth, who’s seeking a wife to enhance his budding political career. But philandering Viscount Midhurst is in ...