The beautiful and wealthy Leonie Mandeville has fallen madly in love and plans to elope against her father’s wishes. But when her plans are thrown into jeopardy, she persuades her lifelong friend, Cleona Howard, to take her place in London as the guest of her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Lynke, who has not seen either girl since childhood.

Overnight, the vicar’s daughter becomes the wealthy granddaughter of a duchess. But what begins as an exhilarating masquerade soon takes an unexpected turn. A ghost haunts her bedroom, the Duchess’s grandson, the Duke, is a drunken gambler, and before long Cleona finds herself swept into a perilous adventure that takes her to Paris and a meeting with Bonaparte himself.

With her deception threatening to unravel at every turn, the stakes are higher than she could have imagined — not only for Cleona, but perhaps for the future of England.

A thrilling tale of romance, deception, loyalty and adventure, where nothing is quite what it seems and where love and courage ultimately triumph.

Barbara Cartland was the most prolific and popular romantic author of the Twentieth Century enchanting millions of readers with her unequalled tales of pure romance, dashing heroes, beautiful heroines, and of course, her trademark happy endings.



Now, as a tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee and to Barbara’s enduring appeal to romantics everywhere, her publishers have launched her past collection - The Eternal Collection.



The collection includes - Elizabethan Lover, The Little Pretender, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and A Duel of Hearts which were all in circulation at the time Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. The books are available at the Kindle Store at Amazon.co.uk – or from Amazon.com.



Ian McCorquodale, Barbara Cartland’s son, said, “My mother would have been so delighted that modern technology can now make her glorious and timeless romances so readily available to new generations of readers all over the world.” weniger anzeigen expand_less