For her insulting behavior toward the Earl of Ashcom, on whom her family depends for subsistence, beautiful Fantine Delmere earns for herself an unwanted London season and is forced to leave her beloved Evergreen and venture into the hard glare of the heartless haute ton she abhors. But Fantine's arrival causes jeralousy and dangerous forces are put into motion...

Rescued from near poverty by her uncle, who impulsively invites Celia Meade and her family to live at his huge estate, Celia must now contend with the dangerous jealousy of her uncle's daughter, Caroline, who sees Celia as a threat, for Caroline's ambition is to become the Countess of Shelton. Caroline was well aware of the impression Celia made on Lord Robert Merrick, heir to his father, the Earl of Shelton, when Celia attended her aunt's funeral.

Trapped in another era, Jane is forced to choose between her very life and the young man of the portrait, for she has fallen in love with the real version of Jestyn Greywick. Years ago, at the age of fourteen, Jane Fielder visited England, the birth country of her parents, with her mother. A that time a strange event took place, and one that Jane never forgot. On a tour of a great estate with her mother, Jane became entranced by the portrait of a young man. She noticed that he had a pendant with the gold chain wrapped around his hand. Impulsively, Jane touched the young man's hand and it felt...

In this small collection of poems, Gloria Gay expresses her thoughts about love and the sea collected through the years on her walks along the sea in her home town of Imperial Beach, California, where she has spent the greater part of her life, with her husband and family. Gloria is awed by the power, magic and allure of the sea in its many moods and feels the pull of the ocean as it beats eternally along the shores of the world.

Society shuns Belinda Presleigh when her mother's scheme results in a forced offer of marriage from the Earl of Berrington, the man Belinda loves in secret. In the silence of St. George's Cathedral, the clergyman's voice rang out unnaturally loud: "Do you, Richard Branston, Earl of Berrington, take this woman, Belinda Presleigh, of Hunsley Manor, as your lawful wedded wife, to love and honor until death do you part?" The few wedding guests crowding around them waited for Berrington's response, which was long in coming. Belinda saw their smirks and heard their muffled laughter. She felt the...