"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...

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels...

Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with...

Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.

This is the story of a couple, one jaded and one innocent, who live through a set of circumstances which develop character problems. It is the innocent, in this story, who finds...