The Heart of Love

When Lady Verena? s widowed father suddenly remarries, she finds thather stepmother is anxious to make a match of convenience for her newstepdaughter and produces a suitor who repels her. Verena has alwayssworn that when she marries, it will be for love and for no otherreason. Feeling that she has no choice but to run away, Verena makes a daring midnight escape from her home. With the help of the familygroom she reaches the nearest port intending to flee to France, onlyto find that the tide is against her. A change of identity and astroke of luck soon see Verena sailing away to a new life, where herculinary skills learnt at school come in surprisingly useful. Butmeeting the Marquis of Hilchester brings a new dilemma ? as herfeelings for him grow, how can she win the heart of the man she loveswhen she is not who she claims to be? And when a friend of herstepmother? s enters the picture, events take a sinister turn. Can Verena find love and true happiness or will she be unmasked and sentback to England and a marriage she dreads or even be thrown into a French prison? All is unraveled in this exciting and romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.