[from fictiondb] Tremulously, Amorita Howe agreed to help her Brother in his audacious scheme. Their dear old nanny required an expensive operation, and the penniless pair hoped to win the lavish prizes offered by the pleasure-loving Earl of Eldridge. The Earl's country house party was a most select and discreet affair: the innocent Amorita found herself among the most glamourous--and notorious!--Cyprians of London. Bravely playing her part, Amorita captured the handsome Earl's jaded heart with her shy beauty. She then fled...but the Earl pursued his cherished quarry, spurred by the Love that is a gift from the gods. A joyous, lifelong adventure...

Rocana Brunt helps her cousin Lady Caroline to meet secretly the man she loves. Then Caroline is told she is to marry the Marquis of Quorn who is in a tight corner over one of his many liaisons. Caroline is broken-hearted, but the Marquis, to save himself, wishes to be married immediately. Because she loves Caroline and because she is so unhappy, Rocana agrees to take her cousin’s place at the altar while Caroline elopes. How the deception is not discovered until Rocana and the Marquis reach Paris, how she finds herself in dangerous situations and how by a magic, unbreakable spell she eventually finds happiness is told in this exciting romantic tale by Barbara Cartland.

Witness to a brutal murder, Pepper Prescott flees a killer, leaving her home, her business, and the false identity she’s spent years cultivating. She runs to the only place she’s ever felt safe—the small mountain town of Diamond, Idaho, where she met the boy who had captured her heart, and taught her body to love…until she turned her back on him in anguish and shame, leaving him without a backward glance. The moment she sees Dan Graham, sweet passion flares again, regardless of the bitterness and anger that divides them. But Dan’s service in the Special Forces has left him wounded, body and soul, and harboring a dangerous secret that could get both he and Pepper killed. In order to save their lives, they must learn to trust each other as they never had before … before it’s too late.

It’s the end of the 19th century in London. Charlotte, the tomboy daughter of an earl, sneaks out of a party and meets Eupho, a mysterious man. He suddenly kissed her that night! Later, she finds out that he’s a perfumer from France, but there are even more mysteries to come…