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Sylvia Penhurst is forced to bear the burden of her unhappy marriage, her ardent temperament subdued by her husband's cold unfeeling behaviour. Then suddenly to her yearning, caged heart comes love, love of the kind her husband cannot or will not give. The temptation to surrender to her passionate...

They are not at all alike. She is young very wealthy and accustomed to having everything her own way. He is serious determined - a man who works for every penny he made and who has no time for play. They are completely wrong for each other. And yet they love one another desperately. And something...

A captivating collection from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1959, and available now for the first time in eBook. A collection of twelve of Denise Robins most unforgettable stories.

Rowan's flight to Switzerland to start a new life coincides with the arrival of Ashley Moore, fresh from the success of a brilliant new musical show in London. Ashley is working on another musical in a chalet near the hotel where Rowan is working, and their paths seem to be constantly crossing - and...

Terry Manstone is a vivacious young girl indulging her passion for the country in a hiking tour, when a badly sprained ankle leaves her as unexpected in Dr. Blaise Farlong?s house and victim of his wife?s evil scheming. In the months that follow, this slight young girl and the frail doctor pursued...

Kitty Farleton is a bride of a few months, alone in New York while her husband Jack is on business in Chicago. But a dreadful fire sweeps through her hotel, leaving twenty-one dead - Kitty seemingly among them. Grief-stricken, Jack returns to London, finding solace in Kitty's best friend Ann....

Lovely, orphaned Lyn Taylor feared the fabulous whirl of the sophisticated London social season would pass her by. As secretary to her wealthy, snobbish Aunt Diana, she was the carefully hidden Cinderella as the list of eligible bachelors ? men of money, title, position, lined up before her cousin...

Andra Lee is a promising young actress and her film career seems guaranteed. But her fiancé, determined that their future together lies in South Africa, has other plans. She is prepared to comply until a vivid nightmare shatters her resolve. And as she sails towards South Africa, thinking only of the world she is leaving behind, the disturbing figure of her dreams comes into her life.

When dashing wealthy Vincent Gayland marries Christina over the objections of his mother Christina is beside herself with joy until a terrible accident cuts short their happiness - and perhaps their love. Though Chris' injuries aren't permanent they are debilitating enough to turn Vince towards Gail...

Philippa's error is to give of herself too generously. The man she gives herself to as wife proves disastrously unequal to the passion she lavishes on him. He feels stifled by it, and after only three years of marriage his thoughts tun to the idea of escape - and his eyes elsewhere. 'Elsewhere' means...

Billie Carden is one of the new breed of women: tomboyish and defiantly independent, she has no use for men and no desire to marry. Nor does she need to - for she is the lucky heiress to the fortune of her American Uncle Silas. But Billie's life takes a whole new direction when two events -...

When Clare Farramond goes to the historic home of Sir Stephen Finch-Boyes, there to act as a tutor to his young daughter, Isabel, it is with sadness in her heart. For still alive within her is the memory of Michael - the man who had been her whole world - the man who had sworn her his undying...

Springtime in Venice, romantic, enchanted city of dreams where anything can happen. Sara is too young, too full of love and life to want the magic to pass her by. She would give anything to be out there by the glittering water, floating in a gondola through golden Venetian afternoons and moonlit evenings...

On the eve of her wedding, Karey Marsden's fiance is killed, and her world seems to come to an abrupt end. Bereft with grief, she is comforted by her father's friend, Dr Ralph Chesney. Some months later, she accepts his proposal of marriage, even though she does not love him, believing that...