Margaret Pargeter Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Separated and divorced from her husband, for six years Eden had to bring up their son on her own, and she wanted to manage without the help of her rich parents. Jonathan was a lovely child, but his father Dane Sutherland had shown no interest in him had never even seen him. Now with Dane lying seriously ill in a Shetland hospital Eden felt that his estrangement from their son had to end — but, she thought, could that not also affect Dane’s estrangement from her?

Als een jonge vrouw na twee jaar haar ex-verloofde terugziet, merkt zij dat haar gevoelens voor hem niet zijn veranderd.

Een onervaren meisje dat manusje van alles is op een groot landgoed, dreigt de prooi te worden van de rijke eigenaar ervan.

Een naïeve jonge vrouw tracht een aantrekkelijke, wereldse en ervaren jongeman voor zich te winnen, maar vervelende misverstanden dreigen roet in het eten te gooien.

Een jonge vrouw zoekt een baan als zangeres in Londen om haar ouders financieel te helpen.

From the back cover of the 1983 Harlequin edition: "I'll marry you instead," he told her Rick Conway would go to any lengths to get his revenge on Emma's beautiful but faithless cousin. And though Emma was thunderstruck and offended at his cold proposal, she soon overcame her scruples. It would be a temporary arrangement, Rick claimed, and it would be a way of escaping her life of impoverished drudgery. All Emma had to do was sustain her dislike of him. And that was when her problems began!

She wouldn't bend to his proud demands From the moment Selena literally bumped into brilliant film director Max Heger, she was drawn into a dangerous courtship--one she desperately tried to escape. She wanted no part of Max's glittering, artificial world--no matter how much she wanted the man himself. Undaunted, Max ruthlessly set out to prove he was a force to be reckoned with. But he hadn't counted on Selena's withering response. The resulting explosion of events left Selena filled with a thirst for revenge... and a heart that ached to love.

The future held no bright prospects. Melissa's wealthy cousin Helen tried to pressure her into a loveless marriage, so Melissa fled back to her Cornish home. There she found that the small market garden business leased by her mother and stepfather had declined during her six absent years. Now it was nearly bankrupt! Worse still, their landlord, the handsome, aggressive Ryan Trevelyan, was demanding the three years' back rent—unless Melissa agreed to his despicable plan. She found herself trapped between concern for her mother, and Ryan—a man who had set himself to run her life!

Tanya had been blissfully happy living a carefree life on her tiny South Pacific island home with her father. But it all came to an abrupt end when her father died and their overbearing neighbour, Luke Harrison, promptly took her to live in his house on his own island — declaring that she wasn't fit to look after herself. It was an arrangement that Tanya didn't at all care for, and when circumstances forced her into marrying Luke she was less happy than ever. She didn't love him, after all, and he didn't love her. Why, then, was she so upset when Luke's former wife, the lovely Rowena, turned up again?