Zijn troeven uitgespeeld (Barbara Cartland's Eternal Collection, # 21)

by Barbara Cartland, Corry van der Hulst (translator)

Quintus Tiverton hade ett stiligt ansikte, men det förstördes av hans bistra uppsyn. Han hade räddat Selina från en ytterst obehaglig situation men var nu tvungen att se efter flickan. Quintus var på väg till det fashionabla Baden-Baden, där han för att tjäna sitt levebröd skulle testa sin lycka vid spelborden. Men kasinot var ingen lämplig plats för Selina att vistas vid; det skulle kunna skada hennes rykte och hennes skönhet skulle förmodligen orsaka kostsamma distraktioner. Men Selina hade gett sitt ord på att hon skulle acceptera första lämpliga frieri, vilket var ett löfte hon skulle få ångra bittert. Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer. Kärleken är häftig mellan de passionerade hjältarna och vackra hjältinnorna, men gång på gång går de igenom prövningar. Men äkta kärlek är alltid starkast och det finns ingenting den inte kan besegra.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance

155 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 24, 2018

About the author

Born 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

Reviews

[Azet · Rating 3 out of 5]

A card player named Quintus Tiverton is on his way to Paris when one night he hears a young woman crying in the room next door. He decides to follow his heart and goes to her and meets Serena Wade - an innocent beauty who has become a prisoner after being tricked by a woman. Her life is in danger and Quintus makes her promise to obey him until he finds her a husband who can protect her. From then on, they have to pretend to be siblings while Quintus introduces her to every suitable bachelor in Paris — but deep down, both Quintus and Serana realize that they only belong to each other.

Barbara Cartland is a magical writer who knows her genre and show how as a writer the way to emphasize romance and the power of love in small but meaningful scenes.I remember how strongly she did that in The Cruel Count which i rated 5-stars.Both Serena and Quintus are fine characters but i decided to delete one star because of the way they ended up together.SPOILER WARNING!***i don`t like that Quintus was ACTUALLY going to let Serena marry another man if she wouldn`t have threatened to commit suicide.She was literally on her way to drown herself in the river if Quintus hadn`t stopped her and decided to finally confess his love for her.

[Cutyboo]

It was alright.

[Miguel Angelo · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story is very astonishing even though I can't understand on a little on french but the storyline was intense and lovely sometimes heartbreaking it is very good

[Aline Damasceno]

Apesar da tradução com vários erros, o que me tirou um pouco o prazer da leitura, a história é bastante interessante pelo mocinho não ser nada convencional: um jogador inveterado que joga como meio de subsistência. Quis dar muitos tapas nele para ele deixar de ser tapado... Mas Selina é uma graça de mulher, e de uma força extrema. Alguns pontos poderiam ser melhores trabalhados, mas a história é leve e é prazerosa.

[Angeles · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with all of her books, the characters seem awfully breathy, but sweetly innocent.

A light weekend read, just what I needed.

[Juanita · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tad "soppy", but quite an interesting read of times I doubt will ever return