Philippa Carr
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1995
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In tumultuous seventeenth-century Britain, ambition, family, and love collide I was beginning to realize that there was something unusual about our marriage . . . When fifteen-year-old Sarah Standish runs off to London to be an actress, she discovers a city beyond her wildest dreams. But the most exciting fantasy of all is the real-life stranger who sweeps her off her feet. Sarah marries Jack Adair, the thrillingly handsome Lord Rosslyn. She's...
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Daughters of England volume 19
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As World War II rages through Europe, two sisters battle for happiness and love The German army is advancing through Europe and the Battle of Britain is grimly underway. With her fiancé, Jowan, missing in action, Violetta Denver despairs of ever seeing him again. While Violetta waits for news, her sister Dorabella finds herself torn between two men: her French ex-lover Jacques and the heroic, mysterious Captain Brent. But James Brent may not be...
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While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, a young woman's indiscretion leads to a seething viper's nest of blackmail and murder In 1912, with war looming on the horizon, thirteen-year-old Lucinda Greenham is sent to an exclusive boarding school in Belgium. Her joy in sharing this adventure with her best friend, Annabelinda, is cut short when Annabelinda has a clandestine affair leading to pregnancy. Annabelinda's family arranges a "rest...
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[1973, c1974]
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Played out against the seething rivalry between Inquisition-torn Spain and Elizabethan England, The Lion Triumphant traces the linked fates of strong-willed Catherine Farland and Captain Jake Pennlyon Called "The Lion," Captain Jake Pennlyon is a fearsome and virile plunderer who takes what he wants, and his sights are set on Catherine Farland. Blackmailed into wedlock and haunted by memories of the gentle boy she was forbidden to wed, Cat vows to...
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[1992]
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"Love, loss and madness mark the lives of twin sisters in this suspenseful addition to Carr's beloved Cornwall saga. When happy-go-lucky Dorabell Denver marries Dermot Tregarland, a charismatic young Cornishman, her twin sister Violetta is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Her worries soon multilply. . . ."--Goodreads.com
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c1989
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Three young women bound by ties deeper than blood are swept up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in this haunting gothic tale Rebecca Mandeville arrives at Manorleigh with her mother amid rumors that Rebecca's politically ambitious stepfather may have murdered his first wife. Homesick for her native Cornwall, Rebecca feels she'll never belong at Benedict Lansdon's ancestral estate-a place haunted by the phantoms of past crimes. When tragedy strikes,...
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[1985]
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Romany Jake aroused passionate feelings in young Jessica Frenshaw but then came the murder, the scandal, the trial and, ultimately, Jake's exile. After Napoleon fell and England was safe again Jake returned and Jessica would finally discover who he really was and that he had come to claim what was rightfully his.
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[1979]
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During a bloody Jacobite upheaval, two half-sisters are torn apart by their passion for the same man and bound together by their love for a child Carlotta, the love child of Priscilla Eversleigh and Jocelyn Frinton, grows up in the shadow of war during the reign of Queen Anne. Carlotta's personal struggle begins when she's abducted by the charismatic Jacobite leader Lord Hessenfield. During her time as his hostage, they fall into a passionate affair....
10) Midsummer's eve
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c1986
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In the British empire during the Victorian age, Annora, daughter of a manor lord and infatuated with a neighboring heir, suddenly comes of age during a memorable midsummer's eve.
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Favel Farrington meets Roc Pendorric on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Capri, where she was raised and lives with her father. Roc sweeps her off her feet, taking her from her home by an emerald sea to the ancient family home of the Pendorrics, in Cornwall. His sister and her family await them with open arms, welcoming young Favel. She is the much anticipated Bride of Pendorric, a name that amuses and flatters her.
The castle is beautiful in...