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Dust of Dreams
by Denise RobinsA 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 Blake - who will shape her future. She marries Ivor, only to be forced by his cruelty into living a lie. Through the hurt that follows - taking her to a long-lost sister in London and a fabulous treasure that will cause her deep pain - she finds in Blake a truer friend than she had ever known. Despite the monstrous husband who has shattered her dreams, will Fate give her a second chance? Could Blake ever be hers?
Enchanted Island
by Denise RobinsHe transforms her quiet world into a dazzling realm of money and success...but can she know what is really in his heart?Young Nicole loves her beautiful Mediterranean island paradise - until dashing composer Paul Quest looks deep into her eyes and promises to carry her away to his London penthouse. And so shy, tender Nicole tradesher blue jeans and rope-soled sandals for high fashion and the dizzying sophistication of Paul's elite social whirl. But even as her young heart thrills at the romance, the question burns: will Paul's love stand the test, or is she destined to become just another of his brief affairs?
The Enchantress
by Denise RobinsA darkly captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1929 and now available for the first time in eBook. Marion Grayle is in love! Overwhelmingly, totally in love. Wild and elemental as her native Dartmoor, with her flaming red-gold hair, challenging dark eyes and the supple allurement of her figure, she has always stood apart from the locals: like a creature from another world. She has spurned all suitors - until now. Now that she has found the one man she is determined will be hers, no one will be allowed to stand in her way. Neither convention, conscience nor scruple will stop her. Only the village wise woman, or mad woman, black-clad and second-sighted, forsees the terrible consequences of Marion's fated, obsessive love.
The Enduring Flame
by Denise RobinsA sweeping tale from the original Queen of Romance, originally published in 1929 and now available in eBook for the first time. Joanna is distraught when Richard leaves. It is difficult to be brave, knowing he is returning to his wife. The decision seemed right; but alone now, she writhes in the torment of separation. The vast wastes of snow and spruce stretch out into the black of the moonless Arctic night and Joanna loses herself in the overwhelming expanse...Suddenly, a sled pulls up to the cabin and stops. A man in furs jumps off and shakes back the hood to reveal a face that Joanna once knew... a face that now makes her heart beat faster in terror.
Escape to Love
by Denise RobinsStorm 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 Celia Trevarwith's father, during the Second World War, Paul Manton comes to the district. A Free-French fisherman; he falls madly in love with Celia. She then embarks on a passionate struggle for her love and happiness with Paul, always up against her step-mother's opposition.
Family Holiday
by Denise RobinsA captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1937 and now available for the first time in eBook. Summer brings the holiday with Guy and the children - just like every other year. But it also brings that chance meeting with Blake Randall, the young officer Clare had loved so deeply and yet so fleetingly all those years ago in a wartime hospital.He has not become boring like Guy, the kindly but unexciting doctor she married. Blake has retained the spark of youth; the spark Clare still feels within herself...
Fever of Love
by Denise RobinsAn enthralling story from the 100-million-copybestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1950 and now available ineBook for the first time.Verona meets Stephen in Paris as afellow student, he is the most brilliant young artist in London, and she loveshim madly. His portrait of her is magnificent, capturing her large, lustrouseyes and creamy skin. Though their love is true, Verona refuses to be Stephen'smistress and leaves him in order to marry a young army officer. She tries to behappy, but soon she finds herself longing for the bohemian life of her formerdays, and, when her husband is stationed in Egypt, begins to wonder what wouldhappen if, just by chance, she should run into Stephen again...
Figs in Frost
by Denise RobinsLucia marries young, yielding more to her parents urgings than the dictates ofher heart. As the years go by, she grows to despise her brutish, egotisticalhusband - finding contentment only in raising her two young daughters. Thensuddenly, Lucia falls gloriously in love, discovering the tenderness and blissshe has never even dared to dream of. And so her husband fights back with theonly weapon he has - forcing Lucia to choose between the children she cherishedand the man she loves...
The First Long Kiss
by Denise RobinsA captivating tale from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1953 and now available for the first time in eBook. Gemma Grantham and Bette Dickens decide to have a really luxurious holiday. Longing for romance they move into a suite at the fabulous Hotel Splendide.Then to add excitement to their joy, Gemma pretends to be an heiress and falls into the clutches of Rudy Shore, a handsome fortune seeker.Adventure follows adventure, and although heartbreak threatens, love is destined to find a way...
The Flame and the Frost (Fauna Trilogy Book Three)
by Denise RobinsAn enthralling story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1957 and now available in eBook for the first time. Readers of Gold for the Gay Masters and Bride of Doom will need no recommendation to The Flame and the Frost, which follows the fortunes of orphan, Charlotte Goff. After narrowly avoiding being run down by her coach, Charlotte is adopted by the noble widow Lady Chase. Taken into her home, Charlotte grows to become an educated and beautiful young woman who catches the eye of Lady Chase's handsome, but heartless son, Vivian. Seduced by him, Charlotte finds herself pregnant, and is forced into marriage with the rake by her benefactor. After years of misery and heartache, Charlotte meets MP Dominic Unwin, a man who's friendship makes her yearn for more... But is there more to him than she knows? This superb drama of Victorian society life tells an unforgettable tale of passion and deceit, love and misery, and the perils of finding a life of happiness...
For The Sake Of Love
by Denise RobinsCarol leads a charmed life, adored by all who know her, but her glamorous, carefree world shatters around her when her fiancé is reported killed. Yet once jolted from her grief by a confession which questions Maurice's fidelity, she abruptly flings herself into a new, more alluring life.For cousin Judy, cast out from the family for her great betrayal, the path is not so clear. Conceived in loyalty, the outcome of her plans unleashes a train of events far removed from her aim, but exposes a truth quite faithful to her desire.
Forbidden
by Denise RobinsTwo young lovers seeking the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity they were never able to find in London emerge from a car in a sunlit Provençal town square. It is an idyllic setting for a passionately romantic interlude, but the dazzling light and contrasting deep shadows echoed the patter of their own life, for Nat is a brilliant young surgeon with a professional reputation to uphold and Toni is married to a vindictive business tycoon.
Gay Defeat
by Denise RobinsLife 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 family fortunes and her father?s suicide changes all that. Lionel abruptly faded from the picture and Delia is left with only her own courage and determination to sustain her.
Give Me Back My Heart
by Denise RobinsWhen wealthy, self-willed Fiona meets handsome Bill Lindsey one fateful Scottish spring day, she little suspects that the encounter will change her life. Before long, the forceful young man?s quiet dynamism begins to exercise a powerful attraction for her. But Fiona is already engaged to the colourless Philippe; her stern father?s commands and the onset of World War seem to end any thoughts of being with Bill.Then, in exotic wartime Casablanca, Bill enters her life once more, wounded in action at sea, and Fiona is faced with a choice every woman fear: between her passions ? and her duty?
Gold for the Gay Masters (Fauna Trilogy Book One)
by Denise RobinsA captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1954, and available now for the first time in eBook.Which tastes sweeter - yearned-for love, or revenge that has waited a lifetime?Sold into slavery as a young girl, the exquisitely beautiful Fauna is eventually rescued by noted dandy, Lord Pumphret. Sure her life is set to improve, Fauna is smuggled from Africa to Georgian England - only to become the plaything and victim of those who make up Pumphret's circle... That is, until she meets noble Frenchman, the Marquis de Charteller. As Madame la Marquise, Fauna dazzles the society of Regency London, but nothing eases the searing pain in her heart - nothing but revenge for the terrible way she was once used and vengeance on the only man she has ever loved...
Greater Than All
by Denise RobinsA dramatic story of love and ambition, set against the turbulence of the second World War.Prue is young, beautiful and talented. Though she may love the charming and valiant soldier, Kit, whom she has nursed back to life after front-line combat, she cannot resist a long-coveted posing abroad. Once in France, temptations of a different kind ? the attentions of a consultant surgeon ? lure her even further away from her young admirer. It is only when Kit is seriously wounded that Prue is struck by the full force of her love for him, but by then fate is no longer in her hands?
The Hard Way
by Denise RobinsA 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.
Heart of Paris
by Denise RobinsNineteen year old Annabel Graye is suddenly left penniless in Paris when financial disaster overtakes her rich father. Fortunately, she is offered a job at the world famous couturier, Maison Christophe, and there her beauty and elegance make her easily the top mannequin. Paris is captivated by her and none more madly than Christophe himself. However, he is engaged to marry the wealthy influential Michèle Luchacre and she is determined to hold on to him. Seeing that Annabel is taking her place in his heart, Michèle, with the assistance of gypsy model Guida, hatches a seemingly infallible plot to discredit Annabel ? and the English girl falls right into the trap.Denise Robins is at her best in this delightful tale of romance and intrigue in the heart of Paris.
Heat Wave
by Denise RobinsPhilippa had come out to Malaya five years ago, full of ideals, to marry George March. And for five years they have been `happily married? ? Philippa would never `fool around? like the other bored planters? wives in Khota. In the club, where hypocritical gossip abounded, it never touched Philippa March. Until that night when Hugh Dawltry, handsome, mysterious, flirtatious Hugh, tells her he loves her. She knows Hugh?s reputation as a libertine, knows that she should feel nothing for him. Soon, however, she begins to notice some disturbing things about George, about their marriage. Soon, Philippa realizes that she is head over heels in love with Hugh, but that duty must keep her trapped in marriage to a vicious, pompous bore. The Heat Wave has begun, tearing a woman?s heart in two?
House of the Seventh Cross
by Denise RobinsA dramatic story of love and intrigue set in the glamorous sun of Majorca.When Rosamund Lowe recovers consciousness after a holiday car-crash, she finds herself in a strange house, and gazed upon by mysterious faces. Kept as a virtual prisoner, and almost forced into marriage against her will, she is confused by the sinister atmosphere that prevailed. And although she meets a destitute singer for whom she conceives a violent passion, it is only when she fully recovers her memory that she is able to piece the puzzle together and find the girl she is being forced to impersonate.
How Great the Price
by Denise RobinsKitty 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. United by their loss, comfort turns to love, and in time they marry. Then Kitty reappears, having been through hell - injury, unconsciousness, mistaken identity and separation, unable to track down her husband and without means to return to England. Will Jack choose the wife he now loves or the wife he thought was dead? What price must they all pay to find happiness?
I Should Have Known
by Denise RobinsWhen young Shelley Bray was appointed governess, she thought that she would be in complete charge until she met her employer's sister. Worst of all, she was constantly made to feel small in front of her new employer, Esmond Torrington - and for some reason that mattered terribly to Shelley. Shelly had fallen desperatly in love with Esmond, the world-famous symphony director.
I, Too, Have Loved
by Denise RobinsAnna is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then she meets Gary Forrester, a brilliant young engineer. Suddenly Cairo becomes an enchanted playground, and Anna finds happiness. But she will need all her courage to leave her husband...
If This Be Destiny
by Denise RobinsA captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1941, and available now for the first time in eBook.
Illusion of Love
by Denise RobinsSoon after Pamela Morris marries Lord Julian Eden in 1918, his plane is shot down and he is presumed dead. Julian's terminally ill mother offers her daughter-in-law a home at Eden Hall, but Pamela has married again. So Stella, Pamela's kind-hearted sister, takes her place to make the old lady's last days happy...