Barbara Cartland - Libros y biografía

Returning home from France, Robina Melville finds surprises awaiting her, and not all of them pleasant. Almost immediately it becomes clear that the familiar surroundings of Trentham House are not the...

Arliva Ashdown is not only the most beautiful girl in London society but the richest, after inheriting her father’s huge fortune. At a ball she is giving, she overhears a couple and is horrified to learn...

Although beautiful young Laetitia is a princess, she and her family lead a life more befitting paupers. Despising them for the gypsy blood that runs in their veins, the grand duchess, their cruel cousin...

Dutiful, demure and far lovelier than she knows, Princess Zosina, the eldest daughter of the Archduke Ferdinand of Lützelstein, is reluctantly obedient when her father announces that she must marry King...

Oppressed and downtrodden on by her aunt and uncle, the Duke and Duchess of Bruntwick, who despise her because her father died in debt and her mother was French, Rocana Brunt yearns to escape the confines...

Some girls can wait a lifetime for one man to fall in love with them, but Selena Norton is so pretty that every man she meets is promptly smitten, including those who are attached to others. Angered at...

Justina Mansell, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Mansell, is told that her sister has been invited to visit India, but cannot accept. So Justina jumps at the chance to go in her place. Her aunt...

Lady Lucilla Welton is all alone in the world, having lost both her parents in a tragic accident. She has nowhere to go, so she stays with her cruel and distant Aunt Maud, who wants to marry her off as...

On a hot summer’s day in 1880, the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved rose garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her 17th birthday and no one remembers it except...

Can money buy you happiness? Impoverished Lady Viola and her twin brother David Northcombe find that their fate has changed dramatically when their entrepreneurial father dies unexpectedly, leaving them...

Beautiful young Araminta Sinclair’s world is turned topsy turvy when her brother Sir Harry loses 600 pounds at cards to the ruthless Marquis of Wayne. It seems that all is lost, but then Araminta has...

In the loveless household of General Sir Frederick and Lady Emily Osmund and their empty-headed twin daughters, begrudgingly adopted niece Azalea is little more than a wallflower. All because her kind,...

After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning. And after sleeping later than usual the following morning,...

Banished by her malicious stepmother, Lady Cranleigh, after the death of her father, Melita braves a long and lonely sea voyage from England to the Caribbean island of Martinique. With a heavy heart at...

The Strathcarrons have lived in splendour in Lednock Castle in Scotland for many generations, but the family falls on hard times. An American guest, Larry Harwood, comes to stay and persuades the Earl...

An unexpected letter from an old friend, His Royal Highness Prince Kraus of Oldessa, to the Duke of Norlington contains a surprise that could change the lives of the young duke and his ravishing sister,...

Leona goes to live in Scotland after the death of her mother. On the way, she meets with an accident and Lord Strathcairn saves her. She is attracted to the man, but is told that he is already married...

The handsome and very rich Marquis of Harlington has just ended yet another unsatisfactory love affair that has left him feeling bored with women and resigned to the fact that true love simply does not...

Dalma Wickham, having been in Athens to learn Greek, arrives at a British Steamer to return to London to find that they will not allow her dog, Twi-Twi, on board. Because she is turned away from the British...

Eugenia Dovedale's father had been high steward to the Marquis of Buckbury. After her father's unexpected death, Eugenia has to leave Paragon, the family's beautiful and much loved cottage on the estate....

Amidst the exciting preparations for the grand opening of Prince Albert’s prized Crystal Palace, a young orphan, Sorilda, is being forced into marriage by her recently cuckolded uncle, the Duke of Nuneaton....

Notorious throughout the Beau Monde as something of a Casanova, the dashing and raffish Virgo, Marquis of Fane, cares little for the swooning Society beauties who fall at his feet. His true passion is...

All eyes are on Lady Tamina Braithwaite as she dazzles the cream of London society at a masked ball. Dressed as a bird of paradise, even the sumptuous silks of her costume cannot detract from the glow...

When Angus McKeith knocks on the door, the lives of Fiona Windham and her niece and ward Mary-Rose are changed forever. Following the recent death of Fiona’s father, Lord Ian Rannock, and sister, Rosemary,...

When the beautiful Lucia Mountford’s mother remarries less than a year after her father’s death on the Titanic, she is shocked when the family fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her mother becomes...

Even amid the genteel grandeur of Venice, the Marquis of Wynchcombe’s ennui is undiminished. His fiery mistress Francesca, a beautiful and flamboyant Venetian actress, bores him almost as much as the...

The Marquis of Elvington, heartbroken to discover the woman he intended to marry has deceived him, decides to leave England and put as many miles as possible between them. Handsome, intelligent, and a...

Neisa More and Carol Waverton are cousins. Both girls are beautiful, intelligent, and hoping to find true love, but there is one major difference between them – money – or in Neisa’s case, a distinct...

The daughter of a wealthy, ambitious man, Rowena knew that her father longed to marry her to a title, preferably the Duke of Wenfield, whom she dislikes. To avoid marriage, they hatch a plot. Posing as...

Scandal, adultery, and an angry husband has to be avoided if the Duke of Rockinston, one of the most handsome and charming bachelors in London, is to keep his family honour. With the furious Earl of Darran...