Hodder Stoughton: 1633 books

Half drowned and desperate after leaping into a river to escape an assailant, Ming Corally drags herself to the gates of Julian Barrisford's home. Julian takes her in. But his wife seizes on the excuse to file a divorce petition - an action which threatens to destroy both Julian and the innocent girl he has saved.

A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1949, and available now for the first time in eBook.

Fern Barrett is a girl of high principles, and such people are born to be tested. When she and her husband Terry are forced by circumstances to take employment servants in the household of powerful financier Quentin Dorey, a bachelor, her trials begin. Terry becomes increasingly self-centred...

A dream come true? It certainly seems so to Fleur. She had been working for the film company; mostly office work and minor production jobs. But actually to appear in front of the camera, and in a leading role - she an unknown! Unknown. That's the problem. The film company has to make her name...

Katherine Shaw arrives in Venice, the most romantic city in the world, to be governess with the aristocratic Voccheroni family. Twenty years of age and from a quiet English upbringing, Katherine suddenly finds herself plunged into a gay whirl of fashion, riches and romance.

Janine is a professional dancer - admired, adored, envied. And life in Monte Carlo should have been glamorous and exciting. But though outwardly radiant, Janine is desperately unhappy. She suspects her lover, the fascinating Nikko, of infidelities with the rich society women. And her infatuation makes...

Storm Castle - home of the Trevarwiths - on the wild Cornish coast. A bride and bridegroom driving up to the doors...a white-faced child peering from a turret window... the first dread meeting between the bride and her red-haired vixen of a step-mother... In later years, after the death of...

Life had always smiled sweetly on Delia Beringham. As well as being disarmingly lovely, she is the only daughter of a wealthy financier who indulged her every whim. Naturally Delia assumes that her indulgent father will eventually allow her to marry Lionel Hewes. But the sudden crash of the...

A captivating love story from the 100-million copy bestselling Queen of Romance, originally published in 1941 and now available for the first time in eBook. It begins on her father's Singapore plantation. There destiny brings the lovely Signa Manton face to face with the two men - Ivor and...

Roland Charter, described as 'the most fascinating man in London', could have had all the women he wanted. Except one. The one he married. Jonquil's secluded life as the heiress to the Rivers millions was no preparation for his seductive line, and only when she had married him did she discover...

A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance first published in 1940 and available now for the first time in eBook.

Would her fiancé find out what the best man already knew? Would she stand at the altar - between two lovers? While in Rome, young Cressida fell madly in love with Dominic, a handsome carefree artist. Though she knew his reputation, she thought their love affair would be different--right...

It all happens so fast... Celia's long lost father appears and announces that he is a millionaire. Now, in his last days, he wants to share his life, and his wealth with his only kin - his daughter. Celia is taken from her drab London flat to her father's fabulous villa in Monte Carlo. There...

Christa Chalford came to Queen's Lacey as a beautiful young bride, deeply in love with her husband Tony. But her mother-in-law, Julia, soon makes it clear that she will never give up her tyrannical reign as mistress of Queen's Lacey and that she regards Christa as an interloper. Knowing that...