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.
Queen Victoria is trying to separate Princess Marigold from her suitor by sending her away to Athens to attend a state funeral as her representative. She decides to play a trick on the Queen by asking a friend, Avila, who could be her double, to attend in her place while she marries her suitor privately! Aliva, who has always wanted to visit Greece, agrees and finds a wonderful adventure there!
From FictionDB: Zokala, 1850. Princess Ileana of Zokala was proud, headstrong, and fiercely devoted to her people. Besieged by suitors at court, Princess Ileana vows never to marry. Yet the Statesmen decreed that she could never rule until she found a husband. Many had courted her for her power and her passionate beauty, but she scorned them all -- until she met her match in an arrogant outlaw, the General Vladilas, who held her to a shocking bargain!
[From FictionDB] Impoverished but beautiful Salrina could hardly believe what she was hearing. A French plot to kill the prince regent! She must tell someone -- and her only choice seemed to be the cynical, arrogant, maddeningly handsome Earl of Fleetwood, her next-door country neighbor. Desperate adventure called her... and a destiny that joined her to the earl in a far sweeter, bolder adventure than she had ever bargained for...
Princess Giona is sent from Queen Victoria to marry King Ferdinand of Slovonia, who is old and cruel. On her way there, she finds out that the previous king had a young son who disappeared. She is determined to help the country find the man who is the rightful king!
The plot is an arranged marriage for Vada, a rich American girl, to one of England's wealthy dukes. An accident to her chaperone gives her an opportunity to explore Paris on her own and while doing so, she loses her heart to Pierre, an artist. Read what happens when she has to leave Paris and tell her duke in England that she's not marrying him!
From fictiondb: 1860. At her rich, look-alike cousin's pleading, impoverished Sacha Waverley undertakes a daring masquerade. She travels to Scotland posing as Lady Deirdre to care for her cousin's fiancé, the handsome, wealthy Duke of Silchester who has been temporarily blinded in a hunting accident. It's Sacha's one chance to wear fine gowns and be waited upon--a fairy-tale come true. Then the unthinkable happens... she loses her heart forever to a man she can never have.
From Fictiondb: Love, true Love! For the lovely, widowed Lady Sherington, it bloomed in her thirty-sixth year, when she was still ravishing enough to pass as the twin of her daughter Trina. But her gentle heart was racked with doubt--for if she were to remarry, her inheritance would be lost, and the handsome Comte she wished to wed needed a rich wife. Only the clever, unpredictable Trina could unravel the problems of love.