A Shooting Star

The beautiful Flavia Linwood had been living in the country until shewas nearly nineteen. She should have been a debutante in London the previous year, but she was in deep mourning for her mother who haddied suddenly. Now at last she travels to London for her Season. Her father, Lord Linwood, and his friend Lord Carlsby arecourtiers in attendance on Her Majesty Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and they are very proud of their position at Court. Quite by chance Flavia secretly learns that they are increasingly concernedthat the Queen is becoming too interested in the handsome Earl of Haugton and heeds his advice rather than theirs. They thereforeconcoct plan to get him out of their way by marrying Flavia off tohim. She is completely horrified at the idea! She has long ago made up her mind that she will only marry someone she loves and who lovesher. How she tries to avoid the Earl, but finally meets him face to face and then finds that he feels exactly as she does and learnsthat, although he is nearly twenty-eight, he has no intention ofmarrying anyone, not even to have an heir to his title andfortune. How Flavia and the Earl plan to circumvent the ingeniousscheme of Lord Linwood and Lord Carlsby. And, how by a strange andfrightening drama at Windsor Castle, they finally find what they areboth seeking is all told in this unusal romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.