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Lies for Love
Destitute after the death of her beloved Papa, Carmela is miserable working as Nanny to the brattish children of the local vicar. So when her closest friend Felicity asks her to take her place in the home of her guardian, the dictatorial Earl of Galeston, she nervously agrees. The subterfuge is necessary to ensure Felicity can marry the love of her life - and possible firstly because none of Felicity's feuding family have set eyes on her since she was a child... And secondly because both young women are blue-eyed, blonde and beautiful. The Earl's ancestral home is awe-inspiring - but it is the Earl himself who makes the greatest impression on Carmela. Growing to appreciate the profound kindness behind his steely fa ade, she falls deeply, utterly in love... But can true love live when it's based on a lie? The Earl finds the answer in his heart when Carmela's life - and any hope of love - is at stake...
160 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 14, 2012
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About the author
Barbara Cartland
1,084 books835 followersBorn in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
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October 29, 2023
Almost exactly the same trope as one of her other ones.
The heroine helps out a friend by pretending to be her, to the friend’s guardian. It will be easy to pull off as they have the same coloring and the guardian has never met her friend.
The friend wants to marry her sweetheart, but suspects the guardian has plans for her because she is an heiress.
The heroine pulls off the deception, and sure enough, the guardian has found an impoverished prince for the heroine to marry. The heroine is clever and manages to convince the Prince to marry instead the girl he loves. So he goes away to do just that, but they agree to keep it secret from the guardian.
The heroine still needs to buy time for her friend to marry her sweetheart. In the meantime, the heroine and the guardian (Hero) are getting along splendidly, and when the heroine finds herself kidnapped, it is the Hero who finds her.
The fear of almost losing the heroine makes the Hero realize that he loves her and wants her for himself. They confess their love to each other. He heroine is found out because the Prince found an article about the marriage of the real heiress to her sweetheart in the Paris newspapers, and sent it to the Hero.
The Hero is not mad, he is only too happy to marry the heroine.
Bummer…no comeuppance for the kidnapping villains.
The heroine helps out a friend by pretending to be her, to the friend’s guardian. It will be easy to pull off as they have the same coloring and the guardian has never met her friend.
The friend wants to marry her sweetheart, but suspects the guardian has plans for her because she is an heiress.
The heroine pulls off the deception, and sure enough, the guardian has found an impoverished prince for the heroine to marry. The heroine is clever and manages to convince the Prince to marry instead the girl he loves. So he goes away to do just that, but they agree to keep it secret from the guardian.
The heroine still needs to buy time for her friend to marry her sweetheart. In the meantime, the heroine and the guardian (Hero) are getting along splendidly, and when the heroine finds herself kidnapped, it is the Hero who finds her.
The fear of almost losing the heroine makes the Hero realize that he loves her and wants her for himself. They confess their love to each other. He heroine is found out because the Prince found an article about the marriage of the real heiress to her sweetheart in the Paris newspapers, and sent it to the Hero.
The Hero is not mad, he is only too happy to marry the heroine.
Bummer…no comeuppance for the kidnapping villains.
April 8, 2023
Destitute after the death of her beloved Papa, Carmela is miserable working as Nanny to the brattish children of the local vicar. So when her closest friend Felicity asks her to take her place in the home of her guardian, the dictatorial Earl of Galeston, she nervously agrees.
The subterfuge is necessary to ensure Felicity can marry the love of her life – and possible firstly because none of Felicity’s feuding family have set eyes on her since she was a child... And secondly because both young women are blue-eyed, blonde and beautiful.
The Earl’s ancestral home is awe-inspiring – but it is the Earl himself who makes the greatest impression on Carmela. Growing to appreciate the profound kindness behind his steely façade, she falls deeply, utterly in love... But can true love live when it’s based on a lie?
The Earl finds the answer in his heart when Carmela’s life – and any hope of love – is at stake...
The Barbara Cartland Eternal Collection is the unique opportunity to collect as ebooks all five hundred of the timeless beautiful romantic novels written by the world’s most celebrated and enduring romantic author.
Named the Eternal Collection because Barbara’s inspiring stories of pure love are just the same as love itself, the books will be published on the Internet at the rate of four titles per month until all five hundred are available.
The Eternal Collection , classic pure romance available worldwide for all time .
The subterfuge is necessary to ensure Felicity can marry the love of her life – and possible firstly because none of Felicity’s feuding family have set eyes on her since she was a child... And secondly because both young women are blue-eyed, blonde and beautiful.
The Earl’s ancestral home is awe-inspiring – but it is the Earl himself who makes the greatest impression on Carmela. Growing to appreciate the profound kindness behind his steely façade, she falls deeply, utterly in love... But can true love live when it’s based on a lie?
The Earl finds the answer in his heart when Carmela’s life – and any hope of love – is at stake...
The Barbara Cartland Eternal Collection is the unique opportunity to collect as ebooks all five hundred of the timeless beautiful romantic novels written by the world’s most celebrated and enduring romantic author.
Named the Eternal Collection because Barbara’s inspiring stories of pure love are just the same as love itself, the books will be published on the Internet at the rate of four titles per month until all five hundred are available.
The Eternal Collection , classic pure romance available worldwide for all time .
March 10, 2019
Oh, Babs. This - stilted - prose makes, my brain - hurt. Seriously.
So we have the old switcheroo. Carmela is a poor orphaned girl with no options, and her fabulously rich best friend, Felicity, swoops in to save her from her plight as the world's worst governess. But Felicity, like all privileged rich girls, has an ulterior motive. Carmela must impersonate her so she can run off with her lover while his mentally ill wife dies of a brain tumor (Babs, seriously? This is a new low for you). Conveniently they look alike, mostly, and no one has seen Felicity since she was 5 except her grandmother. Some family drama...not worth describing, as it is just a plot device to get Carmela into the arms of Felicity's cousin. And the ending defies logic, so classic Cartland.
This plot is dumb, as you might expect. It's not the worst by Dame Barbara, but it's certainly not the best. 1.5 stars.
So we have the old switcheroo. Carmela is a poor orphaned girl with no options, and her fabulously rich best friend, Felicity, swoops in to save her from her plight as the world's worst governess. But Felicity, like all privileged rich girls, has an ulterior motive. Carmela must impersonate her so she can run off with her lover while his mentally ill wife dies of a brain tumor (Babs, seriously? This is a new low for you). Conveniently they look alike, mostly, and no one has seen Felicity since she was 5 except her grandmother. Some family drama...not worth describing, as it is just a plot device to get Carmela into the arms of Felicity's cousin. And the ending defies logic, so classic Cartland.
This plot is dumb, as you might expect. It's not the worst by Dame Barbara, but it's certainly not the best. 1.5 stars.
July 15, 2023
Typical and predictable Cartland.
March 15, 2013
What to do when found in sore circumstances? Carmela found herself in a horrible circumstance. Would her life always be so horrible? Would an open door lead her to a better life? Read the book to find out. Interesting reading.
January 26, 2021
Ummmmmm........this was an easy read......lots of fluff....not much else to say about it....2 stars.
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