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Love Wins

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On his return after six years’ fighting with the Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars, Colonel Romney Wood, who has just become Lord Heywood, is horrified at the state of the country he left behind, where agricultural labourers are now starving, food shops are bare and Luddites lay waste new agricultural machinery. 

Worse still his own estate is almost bankrupt and he has to find something to sell to save it and his loyal staff from penury.

He is considerably hampered because his grandfather has legally entailed everything of value onto future generations of Lord Heywoods and so he cannot dispose of virtually anything without the Trustees’ approval, which he knows will not be forthcoming.

Scouring Heywood Abbey, his country home, for possible items to sell, he is astonished when he stumbles across something he is soon to prize beyond price – a beautiful, fawn-like young girl with deep blue eyes in a white diaphanous nightgown. 

She is an interloper and a runaway, hiding from her wicked uncle, who is forcing her into marriage with a man she despises. 

Her name is Lalita. But more than that she will not tell Lord Heywood. 

Yet slowly she reveals more of herself to him – and with each revelation the bond between them grows. 

And in spite of himself Lord Heywood is falling in love. They are two people with nothing left to lose and maybe only love to win.

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Author’s Note
Author’s NoteAs I write this book I see in the newspapers that four drawings by Constable found in an attic wrapped in brown paper fetched nineteen thousand pounds yesterday at Sotheby’s The great houses of England were filled with treasures in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries because their owners were ardent collectors. Anxious to preserve these collections for posterity, they entailed their possessions onto the future holders of the title ad infinitum. So many of my friends pleading poverty after the Wars searched their huge ancestral homes for something to sell. One couple discovered a priceless pair of Chinese jade vases in a servant’s bedroom. Another found that the boots were cleaned on a table that was a perfect example of Queen Anne oyster walnut. In the 1920s while showing me a Chinese cabinet, my host accidentally touched a secret drawer, which disclosed a pearl necklace. It was nearly green with age, but recovered its lovely sheen when worn next to the skin. Christie’s opened their sales rooms in Pall Mall in 1766 to compete with Sotheby’s who had opened in 1744. There were at one time sixty auctioneers handling the pictures and furniture that Noblemen wished to sell. Yet even the best valuers sometimes make a mistake. The Earl of Caledon sold the contents of his house a few miles from mine. His daughter was staying with me and we attended the sale. I was not very interested when a small ivory crucifix was knocked down at seventeen pounds. It was subsequently discovered to be unique and was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum for a sum exceeding six figures!

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