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Love is Invincible

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When beautiful young Lucille Winterton meets an exceedingly good-looking and very elegantly dressed gentleman while out riding, she knows instantly that this must be the notorious Marquis of Shawforde. When the unpopular old Marquis had died the village folk, including the Wintertons, had hoped that the new Marquis would be more welcoming to them and evcn invite them to meet him at the Big House. They are disappointed, but worse still the village is alive with gossip about the new Marquis’s decadent parties involving drinking, depravity and other ‘high jinks’.Nevertheless the attraction between Lucille and the Marquis is irresistible and, although he is unwillingly promised to another, the pair share secret trysts until the Marquis asks Lucille to marry him even though her sister, Delia, strongly disapproves because his bad reputation could ruin hers.The Marquis’s uncle hears of their dalliance and arrives to intervene as in his view and the family’s Miss Winterton is not grand enough to be the new Marchioness of Shawforde.Mistaking her equally entrancing sister Delia for Lucille, Lord Kenyon Shaw becomes embroiled in a tangle of misunderstandings and, much worse, sinister intrigue.As The Great Game of international espionage in India almost brings death and destruction to their door, two brothers and two sisters prove beyond any doubt that Love really is Invincible.

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Author’s NoteMuch of Victorian Imperial history depended on the fear of Russian intentions in India. The most vulnerable frontier point of all lay in the North-West corner in the tangled country around Afghanistan, which was Alexander the Great’s gateway to India. Afghanistan was a very unreliable neighbour and the frontier area was inhabited by lawless Muslim tribes owing no definite allegiance to anybody and making it very difficult to establish and maintain a firm line of defence. This was why The Great Game came into being, and the excitement, risk and secrecy about it was something that every intelligent and ambitious Englishman longed to be involved in. The British pulled the Russians inexorably East and South, absorbing one after another the Khanates of Central Asia and preparing for the encirclement of India. They were already building a railway across Siberia to the Far East and it was rumoured, although no one could actually confirm it, that they were building a railway in Turkestan, and planning the annexation of Tibet. Queen Victoria was considerably disturbed about this and was continually asking questions of the Viceroy. The British were posting their troops as close to the Russians as possible, although sometimes they thought that the actual possession of Afghanistan would become necessary. The legend of the British arms in India, written about so brilliantly by Rudyard Kipling, was born out of the rocks and wadis of the North-West, where savage tribesmen lay in ambush behind the next rock. The Afghans brooded behind the tribes and behind them all stood the Russians.

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