9 Historical Romance Novels by Madeleine Brent
Requirements: Epub Reader, Kindle; 7.21Mb
Overview: Madeleine Brent is a pseudonym used by Peter O’Donnell.
Peter O’Donnell was born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. He was interested in writing as a child, and began writing professionally at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the Royal Signals Corps, and was stationed in Persia, Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, Italy, and Greece. After the war, he worked as a comic strip writer, and scripted the Daily Express adaptation of the James Bond novel Dr. No. He was most famous for inventing the character Modesty Blaise, an undercover agent who first appeared in comic strips in 1963. In 1965, he published his first novel, Modesty Blaise, which was based on the screenplay he had written for the motion picture of the same name. He also wrote short stories, plays, television and film scripts, and nine romance novels published under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent. In 2001, he retired from writing. He passed away on 03 May 2010.
Genre: Historical Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Suspence
Moonraker’s Bride: Born in a Mission in China, Lucy Waring finds herself with fifteen small children to feed and care for. The way she tackles this task leads to her being thrown into the grim prison of Chengfu, where she meets Nicholas Sabine – a man about to die.
He asks her a cryptic riddle, the mystery of which echoes through all that befalls her in the months that follow…
She is brought to England and tries to make a new life with the Gresham family, but she is constantly in disgrace and is soon involved in the bitter feud between the Greshams and a neighbouring family.
There is danger, romance and heartache for Lucy as strange events build to a point where she begins to doubt her own senses.
How could she see a man, long dead, walking in the misty darkness of the valley? And who carried her, unconscious, into the labyrinth of Chiselhurst Caves and left her to die?
It is not until she returns to China that Lucy finds, amid high adventure, the answer to all that has baffled her.
Golden Urchin: In the scorching Australian Desert, A wild beautiful woman recues a man from death… He was a handsome English aristocrat, sprawled in the dunes, dying of thirst. She was a white skinned savage, fleeing the aborigine tribe that found her and raised her but still shunned the fiery haired outcast.
Suddenly Meg is aboout to escape her primitive life as Luke introduces her to the strange ways of Victorian England. In a search filled with adventure and excitement that spans three continents, Meg uncovers the clues to her true identity and realizes someone is trying to kill her. But the mysteries and secrets of the aborigines still pulse through the Victorian young lady, enabling Meg to triumph in the final desperate battle for survival and claim the only man she will ever love.
Merlin’s Keep: THEY CALLED HER JANI BUT SHE ONCE HAD ANOTHER NAME. AND A PAST SHE NEVER KNEW.
From far-off Tibet to England’s rich countryside, this marvelously enchanting novel unfolds the incredible saga of a beautiful, young half-caste whose strange destiny pulls her into a world of love and terror–a worlds a mysterious power moves slowly toward her, threatening her sanity…and her life.
Stranger at Wildings (aka Kirkby’s Changeling): When eighteen year-old Chantal first encounters the half-starved tramp who calls himself Martin, she is touring Hungary with a circus company as one of the ‘Flying Gallettis’, and prefers to forget every detail of her unhappy early years in faraway England. But a train of events is started which will bring her inevitably back to her destiny and to the unravelling of many mysteries that surround her life. Who is this Martin, who speaks like an English gentleman and looks like a tinker? Why is he in Hungary at all? Whose powerful malice has pursued her since childhood, and why? Who indeed is she? In Chantal Madeleine Brent has created one of her most appealing characters. Red-haired and spirited, her wilfulness and courage win hearts and bring trouble upon her wherever she goes, but although she has driven herself unsparingly to attain a rare skill as a circus artist, her true ambition is to become a doctor (no mean aspiration at the beginning of this century). The story moves from the warm, bustling atmosphere of a travelling circus to the cold correctness of English country house society, and back again to Eastern Europe, before all the complex strands are finally unravelled. Packed with incident and excitement, Kirkby’s Changeling represents Madeleine Brent at her very best.
Tregaron’s Daughter: Excitement, drama and suspense were only part of Cadi Tregaron’s new life. It had been a sunny afternoon when she glanced from the cliff where she sat reading and saw below her in the sea a sight that would change her life.
Set in England and Italy in 1910, this is the story of a young English girl who by accident starts to unravel the unknown elements of her grandmother’s past and is brought by the mystery to the faraway city of Venice. There among the gondolas and canals, she slowly comes to comprehend the meaning of two strange and puzzling dreams–dreams that seem to hold an eerie and menancing prophecy of the future.
Here is all the grandeur and excitement of the ageless glory of Venice and the handsome beauty of the English countryside combined in the romantic and suspenseful story of a young girl’s confrontation with the past.
The Long Masquerade: In 1897 a small ship sails the Caribbean, trading between the islands. It is the home of a man and girl, runaways wanted for murder and who live in fear of arrest. Casey had once been Emma Delaney, wife of Oliver Foy and mistress of Diablo Hall, one of Jamaica’s great houses. A devil had dwelt within Diablo Hall, a devil who meant to break her to his will. When Emma escapes that sinister marriage she wanders across the seas learning the skills that she now depends on. Her life as Casey comes to an end when she is brought penniless to England, where she must face the man who possesses the “evil eye,” and when she finds love it brings new danger and an agonizing choice.
Stormswift: ABDUCTED BY A SAVAGE HORDE, A HIGHBORN MAIDEN IS SOLD INTO CRUEL SLAVERY
Follow the extraordinary journey of Jemimah Lawley, a proud English heiress, as she makes her desperate escape from brutal captivity across the windswept tracts of Central Asia to Witchwood Hall, her ancestral mansion.
With no resources but determination and a resilience born of her years of suffering, Jemimah survives the five-hundred-mile trek with her only companion, a mysterious, fierce-eyed stranger named Kassim. But her return holds no joy, for the young woman who greets her at the door of Witchwood Hall insists that she is Jemimah Lawley.
Branded an impostor, doubting her very sanity, Jemimah becomes an outcast–until a beautiful benefactress takes her under her wing. But dark, hidden passions shadow her newfound contentment. Only when Jemimah deciphers the cryptic, fevered message Kassim once whispered to her in the Asian wasteland–"Stormswift"–can she hope to find peace and happiness.
The Capricorn Stone: When Bridie Chance discovers that her much-loved father is a highly successful criminal, and now dead, her world is shattered. With no home or friends and almost no money, she has to care for her family. But in this world of new people, how can she know who will be friends or enemies? Bridie holds a secret that she does not know she possesses, a secret many desire. As she struggles to support herself and her family amid the life of an Edwardian music hall, Bridie meets with failure and success, finds love, heartbreak, and danger. It is only when she endures a nightmare ordeal beneath the shadow of the Capricorn Stone that the masks are cast aside and the true faces of her friends—and enemies—are revealed to Bridie and the hope of a new life in America is awakened.
A Heritage of Shadows: It is 1890 and Hannah McLeod, an English girl, is living in Paris, where she works at a small restaurant. Only her neighbor Toby Kent, a struggling artist, knows the strange and horrifying secret that makes her afraid to return to England.
Then one night, rescuing a stranger from attack by Montmartre thugs, Hannah unwittingly becomes entangled in circumstances that force her to flee from France to England and take up the mysterious offer she had received to become a French tutor, in the household of a Mr. Sebastian Ryder. But why should Mr. Ryder want to employ her? Does he know something about her of which she is unaware? Are there still more secrets in her past? Why does someone in the household refer to her as the "Butterfly Girl"?
A Heritage of Shadows is the haunting story of a girl, ignorant of her true identity and convinced that she is forever denied love on account of her shameful past, who is plunged into a world of nightmarish intrigue. As the tale unfolds, carrying her from England to Mexico and back again to Paris, Hannah finds herself caught up in a vicious struggle between two men of great wealth and power – a struggle which threatens her life – before the final discovery of where her happiness lies.
Madeleine Brent, the bestselling author, has once again written a story packed with drama and suspense. It vividly recreates the atmosphere of the 1890s, exposing the darker and more sinister elements that lurked below that outwardly respectable era.
Download Instructions:
http://corneey.com/wLgp5P
MIRROR LINKS:
http://corneey.com/wLgp5L).rar
IF YOU LIKE MY UPLOADS, PLEASE CLICK THANKS. CHEERS! 
