The Marquis Is Trapped

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908411341

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The Marquis Is Trapped by Barbara Cartland Pdf

The Marquis of Kexley seems to have everything a girl could want - wealth, good looks, intelligence, athletic prowess - and a title. The only thing he doesn't possess is respect for the legion of women who throw themselves at him, desperate to claim some of his attention. He firmly believes that the woman that could love him forever, and whom he could love in return simply does not exist. Plagued by debutantes with ambitious mothers who have their eyes firmly set on all that he has to offer, the Marquis becomes renowned for his relationships with bored society wives. But this time is seems that he has sorely misjudged the situation and he is horrified when glamorous widow, Isobel Heywood his current affaires-de-coeur, softly suggests that they should be married. With marriage the last thing on his mind, and cursing himself for getting involved with a woman free to marry, he evades her question by pretending to sleep whilst plotting to escape as quickly as possible. With his prized yacht at his disposal the Marquis beats a hasty retreat from London and makes for Scotland to stay with the Earl of Darendell, and enjoy the salmon fishing on the Earl's large country estate. But it seems that the Marquis cannot escape his past no matter how far he runs. Within hours of arriving a surprise member of the household threatens to ruin him, and the daughter of the house, Celina, with her ruthless plotting. Once more on the run, and offering the beautiful Celina his protection, the Marquis seeks sanctuary in the tranquility of the Orkney Islands. With danger at every turn, together, they set out an adventure that neither will ever forget.

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499532199

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The Marquis Is Trapped by Barbara Cartland Pdf

The Marquis of Kexley seems to have everything a girl could want -- wealth, good looks, intelligence, athletic prowess -- and a title. The only thing he doesn't possess is respect for the legion of women who throw themselves at him, desperate to claim some of his attention. He firmly believes that the woman that could love him forever, and whom he could love in return simply does not exist. Plagued by debutantes with ambitious mothers who have their eyes firmly set on all that he has to offer, the Marquis becomes renowned for his relationships with bored society wives. But this time is seems that he has sorely misjudged the situation and he is horrified when glamorous widow, Isobel Heywood his current affaires-de-coeur, softly suggests that they should be married. With marriage the last thing on his mind, and cursing himself for getting involved with a woman free to marry, he evades her question by pretending to sleep whilst plotting to escape as quickly as possible. With his prized yacht at his disposal the Marquis beats a hasty retreat from London and makes for Scotland to stay with the Earl of Darendell, and enjoy the salmon fishing on the Earl's large country estate. But it seems that the Marquis cannot escape his past no matter how far he runs. Within hours of arriving a surprise member of the household threatens to ruin him, and the daughter of the house, Celina, with her ruthless plotting. Once more on the run, and offering the beautiful Celina his protection, the Marquis seeks sanctuary in the tranquility of the Orkney Islands. With danger at every turn, together, they set out an adventure that neither will ever forget.

Author : Miwa Sakai
Publisher : Harlequin/SB Creative
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596782960

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A Love Trap for the Arrogant Marquis by Miwa Sakai Pdf

Sylvia is being run ragged doing things at a resort for her stepmother who is trying to find a new husband. It is there that she meets Marquis Anglesey. He's arrogant, but also the focus of everyone's attention. Sylvia's thought he was only interested in her stepmother, but the one he proposes to is Sylvia! The curtain is raised on this Cinderella story with a twist!

Author : Amélie Claire Leroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600057864

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How they were caught in a trap, by Esmè Stuart by Amélie Claire Leroy Pdf

Author : Daniel Brian O'Leary
Publisher : Geozone Communications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780978126209

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Escaping the Progress Trap by Daniel Brian O'Leary Pdf

The Progress Trap? As the name implies, it is the condition in which we find ourselves when science, technology and industry create more problems than they can solve. Often inadvertently. Many experts have warned about the resulting ecological crisis. The prophets of doom have spoken and alarm bells have sounded. Some critics are even optimistic, but they have no plan. They have not provided a detailed analysis of why humans fall into progress traps. They have not put forward what is necessary for emerging from them. Until now. Find out why societies have a tendency to become entangled in their own ingenuity. Then learn how well-equipped we humans are for resolving the environmental quandary, and other traps. Finding our way out of this predicament is a vital idea, when we learn how to nurture and use our talent for creative-problem-solving.

Author : James Redding Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018105660

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The Death Trap; Or a Cat's-Paw. A Drama in Four Acts [and in Prose]. by James Redding Ware Pdf

Author : John Conroy Hutcheson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026852538

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Caught in a trap by John Conroy Hutcheson Pdf

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788674720

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Good or Bad by Barbara Cartland Pdf

After their beloved Mama passed away, Amalita and Carolyn’s father, Sir Frederick Maulpin, could not bear living in the family home that reminded him so painfully of her. So he left his daughters behind for Paris, perhaps hoping to rediscover the raffish man-about-town he once was. To the girls’ chagrin, he immediately fell in love with and married a Frenchwoman called ‘Yvette’, whom his daughters considered vulgar and quite unsuitable for their adored Papa. Now, to their horror, they receive a letter informing them that their father and Yvette have drowned in a yachting accident in Nice. Not only have they lost their parents, now eighteen-year-old Carolyn has no one to present her to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace and chaperone her at debutante balls on which all her hopes are pinned. But her elder sister, Amalita, has a plan – A letter to her father’s old friend, the Marquis of Garlestone, secures an invitation to stay in exalted company, where Amalita, dressed as a far more mature woman, chaperones Carolyn in the guise of their stepmother, whom no one in London had ever met. And so their charade begins as, meeting the Marquis’s dashingly handsome son, the Earl of Garle, and his cousin, Timothy, they both become love-struck, but also hopelessly out of their depth and confounded by their own deceit –

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112063794579

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Ballantyne's Novelist's Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004570156

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The Novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe ... by Ann Ward Radcliffe Pdf

Author : Anne Ward Radcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z186028704

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Novelist's Library by Anne Ward Radcliffe Pdf

Author : Laura E. Thomason
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485271

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The Matrimonial Trap by Laura E. Thomason Pdf

Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.

Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782139584

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A Battle for Love by Barbara Cartland Pdf

The Marquis of Darincourt who is the greatest matrimonial catch in the Beau Monde decides at last that he will get married and has chosen Lady Charlotte Warde to be his wife. He has been pursued for years by every debutante and ambitious mother, but he has, however, preferred the sophisticated married women who amuse him with their provocative wit and attractions. He is a hero from the war with Napoleon and the Duke Wellington had twice awarded him the Gold Medal for Bravery. As he is the owner of one of the most famous houses in England, immensely rich and of high social standing, he is determined not to be married except for himself as a man. However, as his family are so insistent on his marrying for an heir to carry on the title, he drives to Lady Charlotte’s house to ask her to be his wife. When he arrives to his astonishment Lady Charlotte informs him that she is going to marry the young Duke of Nottingham simply because he is a Duke. Furious and frustrated, he drives his phaeton away, but is stopped on the drive by a young girl who begs him to take her with him. The beautiful Serla Ashton is the niece of the Earl of Langwarde and Lady Charlotte’s cousin, who has been very badly treated because her mother ran away the night before her Wedding to a Royal Prince. Serla persuades the Marquis to take her to London and on the way he has the brilliant idea of saving himself from being laughed at for losing Lady Charlotte by announcing that he and Serla are engaged to be married. She agrees to the charade and with the help of the Marquis’s grandmother she becomes one of the beauties of the Beau Monde overnight. How the Marquis is delighted at making people believe that it is he who has rejected Lady Charlotte rather than the other way round. How Lady Charlotte takes a bitter and frightening revenge on Serla and the Marquis and how they both eventually find the love they are seeking is all related in this exciting and unusual story by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Author : Margaret McPhee
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373297467

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Mistress to the Marquis by Margaret McPhee Pdf

She may grace his bed, but she will never wear his ring They whisper her name in the ballroom's shadows—the marquis's mistress! It will take all of Alice Sweetly's renowned acting skills to play this part: smile until it no longer hurts, until they believe your lie, until you believe. Pretend he means nothing. If the Marquis of Razeby thinks he can let his mistress go easily, he is so very wrong. Each night she appears before a rapturous Covent Garden audience, taunting him with her beauty. But Razeby must marry, and while Alice could grace his bed she can never grace his arm.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000480469

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf