"There is nothing for it – we will have marry for money!The Strathcarrons have lived in splendour in Lednock Castle in Scotland for many generations, but the family fall on hard...
Carina was alone in the world and unsure of what the future held for her.Then a troupe of musicians, called 'Bertie's Beauties', had an accident outside her gates and she found...
Can you fall in love with someone before you meet them? Valona, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the deposed Prince of Piracus believes she can. Beautiful, spiritual and aching...
Venetia was very lonely after the death of her parents.So when her cousin Mary begged her to help to save her from a forced marriage, Venetia was ready.Mary was in love with...
Charles, Lord Hartley, was at his wits end. He had spent a fortune on his cousin John, and still the embittered John demanded more money.Charles knew he needed an heiress and he...
The Marquis and Marquise de Castillon together with their young son, Jean-Pierre, were forced to flee France for England when the French Revolution broke out in 1789.Jean-Pierre...
Major Michael Moore has been playing a very dangerous part in the Great Game in India where he foils a plot to kill the Viceroy who tells Michael he is now a marked man and that...
Lady Tamina Braithwaite is excited and happy to be secretly engaged to the handsome politician, Edmund Newson.However she is devastated when she discovers he is already betrothed...
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich, 1 April 1875 – Beverly Hills, February 10, 1932) was a writer, journalist, playwright and screenwriter.Together with Arthur Conan...
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. At the start of his story the lawyer already employs...