When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestralNorfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from theunexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax.
One of them, thehandsome Mervyn Hunter, is soon in ardent pursuit of the lovelyChiara.
But can she trust his declarations of love or does themysterious, dark-haired stranger she encounters by chance on theseashore hold the key to her future happiness?
Mervyn Hunterproposes marriage to Chiara and she turns him down, as she does notlove him and she senses that he is cold and calculating and has anulterior motive in asking her to be his wife.
As she watchesspellbound, a group of wild swans fly North over the sea towardsRussia, Chiara feels a magical world of passion and beauty calling toher.
Soon she too will be travelling North to the enchanting Cityof St. Petersburg, although in the company of Mervyn Hunter?s pushysister and her two tiresome daughters.
But will she ever breakfree from the clutches of Mervyn Hunter and his family and be reunited with her true soulmate, the elusive and mysterious Count Dimitrov?
Find out, in this scintillating and thrilling romance by BarbaraCartland.
When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestralNorfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from theunexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax.
One of them, thehandsome Mervyn Hunter, is soon in ardent pursuit of the lovelyChiara.
But can she trust his declarations of love or does themysterious, dark-haired stranger she encounters by chance on theseashore hold the key to her future happiness?
Mervyn Hunterproposes marriage to Chiara and she turns him down, as she does notlove him and she senses that he is cold and calculating and has anulterior motive in asking her to be his wife.
As she watchesspellbound, a group of wild swans fly North over the sea towardsRussia, Chiara feels a magical world of passion and beauty calling toher.
Soon she too will be travelling North to the enchanting Cityof St. Petersburg, although in the company of Mervyn Hunter?s pushysister and her two tiresome daughters.
But will she ever breakfree from the clutches of Mervyn Hunter and his family and be reunited with her true soulmate, the elusive and mysterious Count Dimitrov?
Find out, in this scintillating and thrilling romance by BarbaraCartland.
