Una Thoreau vertrekt naar haar vader in Parijs nadat ze afstudeert aan een kloosterschool in Italië. Bij aankomst komt ze er achter dat haar vader echter dood is.

Pandora woont na de dood van haar ouders bij haar oom, een bisschop. Ze luistert per ongeluk een gesprek af waarin haar oom haar uithuwelijkt aan Prosper Witheridge, zijn hulppredikant.

Lord Athelstan, een diplomaat op reis door de Kaukasus, wordt gevraagd een gijzelaar, Natasja Melikov, te begeleiden naar Constantinopel, waar zij zal toetreden harem, in ruil voor de vrijheid van...

Quintus Tiverton, een beroepsspeler, is op een avond ongewild getuige van een hevige ruzie. Wanneer hij op onderzoek uitgaat blijkt dat ze bijna het slachtoffer van een koppelaarster is geworden...

Since the death of her almost bankrupt father, the beautiful Andrea Clerefall has been reduced to the status of a drudge under the stern eye of her stepmother and her two unpleasant stepsisters...

Valda leeft een luxueus leven met haar moeder en stiefvader in een kasteel in Frankrijk. Ze groeit er gelukkig op, tot ze ontdekt dat haar Franse stiefvader haar wil uithuwelijken aan een vreemdeling...

Door haar eigenzinnige optreden ontmoet een jong meisje al snel de man van haar dromen, die echter niet weet wie zij in werkelijkheid is.

When Madelina Winston, a beautiful American heiress, arrives in England, she has at first only one thought on her mind, to try and trace her late father’s English family. Her stepmother, Mrs...

The Earl of Langdale tells his beautiful daughter, Zela, that, having gone to London on a visit, he has become involved with the Comtesse de Courché, who is one of the famous beauties of the London...

The Duke of Laverdale is ambitious to be appointed Master of the Horse and the new Queen Adelaide is determined that behaviour at Court should be moral after the licentiousness of King George IV...

The beautiful Yolisa Warren lives quietly in the country with her father, her mother having died five years ago...

Lady Julia Wood was extremely happy living in the country with her father, the Earl of Wentwood, after her mother’s death, until he remarries unexpectantly after a visit to Paris...

I hate the thought of leaving Papa, but my stepmother gives me no choice.’ The beautiful Anthea Preston has had much to contend with in her life...

The beautiful Aurora Hartnell has just left her Finishing School in Paris and returns home to Hadleigh Hall...

Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling by train to Boulogne when her train crashes into another one...

The Earl of Wentworth has a fiery and unpredictable temper and is about to fight a duel in Hyde Park with a Frenchman who has insulted him, when he is restrained by his friend, Sir Thomas Babbington,...

Queen Victoria sends for the Duke of Sherbourne and asks him to undertake a very secret mission on her behalf. It is so secret that only his loyal valet, Jenkins, is told...

Princess Zelda of Brienz in Switzerland is being harassed by her father to marry a King or Prince of one of the small countries of Europe...

The beautiful Lady Eleta Renton returns from France where she has stayed long over her time at the Convent School in Paris...

Princess Caterina of Theiss receives a letter from her close friend Princess Henriet of Istria asking her to stay with her immediately. The two Provinces were close to each other and part of Austria...

After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning...

The Marquis of Whisinford and his friend Lord Alfred Middleton meet at White’s Club and tell each other how bored they are with the London Season and the same parties with the same people night after night.

The beautiful Lola Fenton lives happily in a small cottage in the depths of Worcestershire, but she is suddenly orphaned when her father and mother are killed in a railway crash...

When Lord Templeton is sent for by Sir James Redwell, the British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he knows that there is trouble somewhere in the world and because he is so successful...

The beautiful Ariana Dancer is orphaned and has led a cheerless life in London with her disagreeable Guardian, Uncle Konstantin Bardici...

The beautiful Colena Dalton has inherited a great fortune following the untimely death of her enormously rich father, Sir Arthur Dalton, in Paris after a long illness...

The beautiful golden-haired Orlina Runford is the daughter of the renowned author, Sir Nicholas Runford...

Lady Novella Crownley has been teaching at a girl's school far from her ancestral home, Crownley Hall, and one day her mother asks her to return...

For years Celina Storton had been in love with Robin, the Earl of Torrington, but he spent his time in Paris, pursuing beautiful women and the more the merrier...

Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage...