The Coin of Love — Barbara Cartland

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Cleona Wickham's mother preferred to keep hidden the fact that she had a grown daughter. She sent Cleona to the country far from her glittering, sophisticated world.

But when her mother suddenly decided to visit the country estates, Cleona was plunged into the intrigues that followed her arrival. Cleona found herself involved in a game of deception as her mother's rival.

Hurt and confused Cleona turned to the protection of the only man who would help her--the forbidding Lord Sylvester Raven. And so she embarked on a tempestuous voyage of reckless romance, overwhelming love and violent danger--a voyage that drew her heart closer and closer to her strange protector....