Eleanor Farnes

He was famous, she was a nobody. Erica was heartbroken. She'd been forced to give up her musical training and hopes for a career as a concert pianist. For suddenly, with the death of her stepmother, she had to devote all her time to housekeeping. Then fate lent a hand. Erica met the dynamic Charles Winlake, an eminent conductor. And he, dismayed at this waste of young talent, took an interest in Erica ... an interest that became far more than just professional!

Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater return to Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved them from certain death, and discover she has been brutally beaten by a powerful noblemen.

Selena was only an ordinary working girl—although she was a very nice and intelligent girl, and the work, designing beautiful and exotic dresses, was absorb-ing and rewarding work—but the two men in her life were very far from ordinary: Martin Tanser-Reed and Kurt Johanssen. They were both handsome, attractive, and very wealthy—and each of them was pursuing her relentlessly. But men like that didn't usually treat girls like her as anything but playthings—and Selena had no intention of being anyone's plaything. So what kind of future, if any, could she expect with either man?

A boys' public school, set in a pleasant old cathedral town, is the background for this charming story of Ingrid Southbrook, who came to keep house for her brother during his wife's illness. Sylvia Southbrook also had a brother, rather celebrity, and Ingrid had no doubt that he would be a selfish and disagreeable as Sylvia herself. But Ingrid would have been surprised to know that her meeting with Patrick was destined to change the whole course of her life.

A night of heavy snow, and dogs barking outside an old Cotswold farmhouse.... When Nancy and her two sisters went out to see what was the matter, they found a handsome stranger unconscious in a snowdrift. They and their parents saved his life; but when he recovered consciousness, he could not remember anything about himself. He stayed on to get work on a neighboring estate - and so began a warm and tender love-story.

Laurie thought that marriage would open the door to a happy and carefree life, but she soon acquired a loved and loving husband, but an unwelcome admirer and a jealous, desperate enemy, who between them were almost to wreck her marriage. Laurie, however, found a way to defeat them and establish her own plan for happy living.

It was certainly a glamorous job that Madame Hartstein had offered Alison—and there was the added bonus that it introduced her to two most attractive men, Piers Somerton and Louis Vanderveld. But was either man really what he seemed, and how genuine was their interest in Alison?

When Tim Burnet-Wilde callously broke her young sister's heart, Andrea decided to pay him back in his own coin. So she got a job as his secretary, intending to make him fall for her and then leave him flat. But what if Tim didn't react as expected?

A charming, idyllic story of summer on the Breton coast ; of a young girl's love for the not-so-old widower whose little daughter was in her charge. Monique thought herself separated from Max by impassable bathers , but " impassable " is a big word, and her future was brighter than she had ventured to hope.

When Mike Patterson went back to England to see the village where his father had been born, he was full of the ideas -- and, it must be admitted, prejudices -- natural to a highly successful Canadian business man. At first he hadn't much patience with Beech Hampden, its "great house" and its unprogressive, inefficient ways. But he grew to appreciate the beauty of the place, to understand its values ... and he fell in love with an English girl. In the course of an enchanted holiday in Italy he told her so, only to find that his own money, buying the impoverished estate, had enabled the struggling young English heir to become engaged to her. All his life Mike had been accustomed to getting what he wanted. Was he going to fail in this most important want of all?

The compelling new saga set in turn-of-the-century London by the author of A Mother's Courage.Despite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, eighteen-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in life. Until her father's feud with a fellow bargeman threatens to destroy everything. To save them all, Rosina agrees to marry Harry, the son of a wealthy merchant. But a chance encounter with a handsome river pirate has turned her head and she longs to meet him again.When her father dies a broken man, Harry goes back on his promise and turns Rosina out onto the streets. She is forced to work the river herself, ferrying rubbish out of London and living rough. In spite of her hardships, she cannot forget her pirate and when tragedy threatens to strike once more she is forced to make a choice. But is she really prepared to risk everything for love?

Sara Mervyn was a rising young ballet star. The ballet with its hard work and discipline, its triumphs and disappointments, absorbed her whole life, leaving no time for love or marriage -- or so she thought. And so thought Jeremy Craye, wanting, not a dancer, but a wife, a mistress of his house, a mother of his children. And so thought Neil, unable to see himself as part of the life of a brilliant dancer. It was Isobel who unwittingly sorted things out. Bitterly jealous, she tried to ruin Sara's life, but in so doing gave her the key to happiness.

Juliet Arnold went to Spain to work, but her plans went awry and instead she found herself very much involved with two men. There was Harry Boyd, who was nice and calm and kind, who loved her and wanted to marry her. She always felt so comfortable and at home with Harry that she was sure the probable Yes she had given him to his proposal would one day become a definite one. And then there was that other man Don Miguel Navajas y Orozco, who was like his mountain home - wild, tempestuous, dark and stormy. Juliet alwasy felt somehow uncomfortable with Miguel. Yet might not the ease she felt with Harry be all too much like the situation between brother and sister? And the difficulties she experienced with Miguel be a guard against deeper feelings?

When Andre Savary, a bachelor and by no means an old one, found himself responsible for the upbringing of three orphaned nieces, he decided that they must have someone to look after them, make a home for them and see that they did not forget their English--their mother's language. And that is how Lorna Darwell came to be installed in the spacious Savary villa on the shores of the beautiful lake of Lugano. There, and in their chalet in the Alps, she learned to feel a real and deep affection for the girls, and her care for their welfare proved to be a key that unlocked the door to her own happiness.

After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -- and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body.

Celia took her small niece to Switzerland for a long period of treatment, and fell under the spell of the majestic snow peaks and green fertile valleys. She fell under another spell too, that of Kurt St. Pierre - hotelier and mountaineer. Then there was Geoffrey Crindle, well-to-do and handsome, whom she had not seen since her schooldays and very soon life became rather complicated!

The ceiling was in Noelle's room in a fascinating holiday villa in Positano, in Southern Italy. And it contained a secret which was to transform her stay into an affair of mystery, excitement and danger.

Alison Vale was a welcome addition to the home of her guardian, Peter Malliner - welcome to Peter himself and to his brother Douglas who was slowly recovering from an air crash, even, after a time to fussy and fluttery Cousin Priscilla. But to Lydia Peyton, Alison was far from welcome. Lydia intended to become Peter's wife, and she planned to get rid of this obstacle. But she had not bargained for Alison possessing considerable good sense as well as sweetness..