Someone to Love — Barbara Cartland

Betrayed by the spiteful and sham innocence of a well-born debutante, the proud Duke of Stalbridge has retired to his ancestral manor, Stalbridge Hall. But the family is due to meet the future Duchess, and the disillusioned Duke requires a substitute... His savior is Zoe, a winsome beauty surrounded by mystery. With her shy good-breeding and delicacy, Zoe reminds the powerful Duke of his private passion--the rare and precious orchids he coaxes to bloom under his skillful touch. A splendid tenderness blossoms between the irresistible Peer and his pretty Protegee. But their idyll is soon shadowed by a cruel menace from Zoe's royal past -- a danger they must vanquish to safeguard the miraculous prize of their love, a sweet duel of hearts they will wage happily and forever....