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Barbara Cartland

A Heart of Stone

The beautiful Vanora is helping her uncle, Lord Blairmond the distinguished Statesman who lives in London, to write his autobiography, when she has an urgent call from her brother, Ewen, to return immediately to Scotland.
He has just become Chieftain of the McKyle Clan and she wonders why he wants her.
The McKyles have for years fought with the MacFiles whose Chieftain is the Earl of Glenfile.
The Earl has also returned to Scotland because his father is dying and he has been tricked and deceived by two women he has been having affaires-de-coeur with in London
He comes to the decision that he will never fall in love again and trusts no one.
Vanora finds when she reaches Scotland that her brother wants her to steal back from the MacFiles the sacred Stone of the Clan McKyle, whose Chieftains have used it down the centuries when they accepted the allegiance of their Clansmen.
Ewen has seen that the Earl is advertising for a librarian and thinks that is a good excuse to get his sister into Killdona Castle in disguise.
When Vanora refuses to do what he wants, he threatens to have her exiled from the Clan which is something she contemplates in horror.
Finally she goes to The Castle, which she finds very different to what she had expected. It is filled with the most marvellous treasures including books she had always longed to feel and read.
She saves some of the Earl’s greatest treasures from being stolen and finally as he is so handsome, she falls in love with him.
She is certain that, when he knows who she is, he will never speak to her again and drive her away from his castle.
How the McKyles get back their Stone and how the Earl and Vanora find real love is told in this exciting and unusual story by BARBARA CARTLAND.
146 printed pages
Copyright owner
Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd.
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2013
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Impressions

  • fatimahj07shared an impression6 years ago

    Travelling just to kill beautiful life..."It was with a sense of relief that she talked to the gentleman on her other side and found that he had come to Scotland because he wanted to catch his first salmon and shoot his first stag." What a waste.

Quotes

  • S.has quoted5 years ago
    A Rose in Jeopardy
    A Call of Love
    A Flight to Heaven
    She Wanted Love
  • fatimahj07has quoted6 years ago
    “That is what everyone hopes. The rivers are doing well at the moment and I am sure you will be successful.”

    “If I shoot my first stag,” he said proudly, “and it has a fine head, I will have it mounted.”

    “And your children, when you have them, will look at it enviously,” Vanora said, “and try to shoot an even bigger one!”
  • fatimahj07has quoted6 years ago
    It was with a sense of relief that she talked to the gentleman on her other side and found that he had come to Scotland because he wanted to catch his first salmon and shoot his first stag.

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