A Dream Come True

\"? How could you, Mama? Papa has not even been dead a year!? Whenthe beautiful Lucia Mountford? s mother remarries less than a yearafter her father? s death on the Titanic, she is shocked when thefamily? s fortunes suddenly go into rapid decline and her motherbecomes ill. Deeply in debt her stepfather borrows a considerablesum of money from the handsome but roguish Lord Winterton. Horrified, Lucia discovers that not only has she been pressed into working for him as his secretary to repay the debt, but that she has beenpromised to Lord Winterton in marriage. To add further misery toher burden, her mother? s condition worsens and her life hangs in thebalance. In the meantime, Lucia is being secretly wooed by thestaid but good-looking Edward de Redcliffe who is intent on making her his own. As Lucia struggles with herself over her growingattraction for her employer, events take a strange turn when thewilful and beautiful Lady Shelley sets her sights on becoming Lady Winterton. How Lucia finds true love and what happens when Lord Winterton mysteriously disappears is all told in this intriguing novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.\"