Joined By Love

Beautiful Lady Lucilla Welton is all alone in the world, having lostboth her parents in a tragic accident. She has nowhere to go and soshe stays with her cruel and distant Aunt Maud, who wants to marry her off as soon as possible. An ardent suitor is at hand ? the rich Texan, Harkness Jackson ? but his proposal is not one Lucilla couldever contemplate. She has already met the only man who will everfind the key to her heart ? but the handsome Marquis of Castlebury isenthralled by another and for him, Lucilla seems to be no more than acasual friend. She accepts the Marquis? s invitation to visit Pariswith him and her old Nanny comes as chaperone. She is enchanted to bewith him, but dark clouds are gathering. And, once Harkness Jackson has found out where she is, the odds against Lucilla ever findinghappiness grow longer and longer. She flees the persistent American and the Marquis believes that she has run away with him. She is taken in by her maid from her hotel and her artist brother, who paints herand the portrait catches the eye of the Parisian art world ? and the Marquis. Will Lucilla ever find true love with the man she adores? Will the Marquis finally come to his senses and follow hisheart? All is revealed in this exciting, heart-stopping romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.