Belgrave House: 700 books

While in London, Americanborn Kit Anderson visits Baverstock Manor where her mother was raised. Though invited, she is made horribly unwelcome and resolves never to make contact again. But through a chance meeting with the local doctor, Ross Vernon, she learns that another girl is impersonating her,...

Riding on the Yorkshire moors, Emma meets a handsome stranger. Later, she is horrified to learn he is the man convicted of murdering her father 13 years ago, Matthew Sutcliffe, and back from transportation to Australia. Now wealthy, having found gold, he still protests his innocence. Emma finds herself...

Blissfully happy, newly married Carol Briers is shattered when her husband Clive goes missing without a trace. Finding a receipt with the name C Ashley and an address, she sets out in desperate hope to talk to this man. Instead she finds Clive’s brother, Paul Ashley, and learns shocking things about...

In Madeira, motherless Marianna lives a carefree childhood. Her closest friend is Jacinto, the intelligent son of her father’s vineyard manager. But at 16, she is married off to an older man by her feckless father. In England, William Penfold turns out to be ruthless and abusive. Much later Jacinto...

Obeying her fathers deathbed wish, Sarah returns to live at the family mansion on Exmoor in Devon. She faces hostility, it being believed that her sister Felicity had eloped with the coachmans son after stealing jewellery. Desperate to clear her sisters name, Sarah finds that only her second-cousin...

Gail Fleming leaves her job in New York and rushes home to England when she hears the shocking news that her invalid aunts husband, the famous Czech writer Alexis Karel, has disappeared. Then Alexis is spotted in Europe together with her aunts glamorous nurse. This totally destroys Alexiss credibility...

When Kerry Lyndon’s employer, Monica, decides to marry an American, she provides Kerry with a job as assistant to famous actress Adeline Harcourt at Villa Stella d’Oro in Sicily. But characters Kerry met in Rome keep turning up at the guest villa, especially Philip Rainsby, with whom she’d spent...

Henrietta Biddles first season was not going well. She made all the social mistakes a country miss could, and handsome Lord Wakeford, though he found her faux pas almost endearing, cynically commented on her various failings. Hetty was an heiress and determined to turn herself into an Original. His lordship...

Dermot, Earl of Heronforth, reluctantly accepts the obligation of his dead brother to bear-lead young Bobby Blain around Town. But Bobby turns out to be Roberta, not at all what he expected. Bobby, already courted by two suitors at home, needs to be in London to attempt to clear her father's name...

Petronella Fanshawe, thwarted by Lord Claverton from becoming governess to his sister's children, obtains another post and is able to leave her aunt and jealous cousins. She does not wish to go with them to Paris, now Napoleon is safely imprisoned on Elba, but her employer's husband, a Frenchman,...

Abigail Barton’s parents eloped to Gretna Green and were disowned. She doesn't know her grandparents, but is sent to London for the Season, where she meets the Earl of Keighley. Julian is intrigued by Abby and agrees to use his ballroom for her ball. Abby receives several offers, and she knows she...

Yasmin is suspended between two worlds -- the gypsies with whom she lived as a child, and that of her Aunt Georgina in an English village. But when Georgina dies, Yasmin chooses to join the gypsy tribe, where her grandmother explains her origins. Three men vie for her affections: her cousin  Leon,...

The very day Liz Sullivan, freelance writer, returns to Denver to visit her estranged family, her ex-husband's body is dumped at her parents' door. Since Liz had once tried to kill her extremely abusive husband, the police think she's their killer. Liz finds it necessary to do some dangerous sleuthing,...

When Sophie Althorpe arrived in London, her beloved Aunt Ruth hoped to present her to the ton and make a proper match. But the secret surrounding her birth haunted Sophie. And when the dashing cavalier Jonathan Gray returned, it became more important than ever that she find out the truth. For Sophie...