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After her brother Giles loses the family home during a gambling session, Celesta is left alone and destitute, with only the comfort of her old nurse. She must leave the cottage she has occupied at the estate’s edge, where the Earl of Meltham now owns.
The Earl proposes ‘protection’ to Celesta, hoping she will accept his offer to become his mistress in exchange for a better life. Horrified, Celesta faces the dilemma of how to defend herself from the Earl’s unwanted advances while navigating her new reality.
First publish date: 1975
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Barbara Cartland
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