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Barbara Cartland

An Archangel Called Ivan

Arliva Ashdown is not only the most beautiful girl in London Society but the richest as she has inherited her father’s huge fortune.
At a ball she is giving she overhears two people talking outside the window and she is horrified to learn that, although they are very much in love with each other, the man is telling the girl that the only chance he has of obtaining money for his crumbling house and estate is to marry Arliva.
A little later she overhears another conversation between the Countess of Sturton and her son, Simon, who is a rather unpleasant young man Arliva has been trying to avoid.
The Countess insists that her son proposes to Arliva as they too need money to upkeep Sturton Castle and, although Simon has no wish to do so, the Countess persists, saying that Arliva will accept him because of his grand title.
Disgusted by what she has heard, Arliva makes a dramatic decision.
She decides to hide away in the country and see if she can find someone who loves her for herself and not for her money and so she manages to become a Governess to Lord Wilson’s three grandchildren whose parents have been drowned at sea.
With great brilliance she leaves her house in London where she is chaperoned by her aunt without anyone realising where she is going and installs herself in Lord Wilson’s house in the country.
Here she is able not only to make the children happy with new ideas and activities that no one has thought of before but to drastically change the routine of the household.
Suddenly, when she least expects it, she is kidnapped by the Countess of Sturton, who makes her a prisoner in Sturton Castle and she is starved until she can no longer refuse to marry her son.
How she is prays fervently that she will be rescued from a terrible fate
How a man, who she thinks is an angel, saves her by what seems to her a miracle just before the day of the wedding.
How they both find a happiness that only comes from God and is the love that all people seek, is told in this unusual story by BARBARA CARTLAND.
140 printed pages
Copyright owner
Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd.
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2012
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  • stephensonanniehas quoted9 years ago
    “I have always believed in angels and that a very special Guardian Angel looks after me and guides me all through my life.”
    Barbara Cartland

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