Seek the Stars

by Barbara Cartland

Forced into a betrothal to the Earl of Kensall, who is having an affair with her stepmother, the Marchioness of Langbourne, Sadira runs away only to find herself in danger, and the Earl is her sole hope for survival

Genres: Romance

Mass Market Paperback

Published June 1, 1992

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[MissKitty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super short book.

Once again the Hero and heroine are forced to get engaged because he is having an affair with the heroine’s stepmother!

Unlike the other one which has the same teope as this, this Hero is not in love with the step mom. It was just an affair, and has no love for her. The step mother forces the heroine to agree by threatening to hurt the beloved horse and dog of the heroine.

The Hero tries to make the best of a bad situation by introducing the heroine to his family. And unsurprisingly, she is magnificent. His whole family loves her.

However she decides that pretending will be so unbearable for her so she decides to run away. She joins a traveling missionary to Morocco.

Not to worry the Hero follows her. They realize they love each other and the missionary marries them.

The evil step mom is killed by another lover. So it should be smooth sailing for the rest of their lives.

[Gogol · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very sloppy version of a recurring -and sometimes engaging- theme amongst the old dame’s works. It is so sloppily executed that it’s obvious it was put together by one of the more inexperienced writers in our darling dame’s writing factory. All the elements were there, gorgeous, flawless, virile, master of his world, most eligible, aristocratic hero banging evil, beautiful but wily step-mother/aunt/godmother of the heroine, jealous husband threatening divorce and scandal, marriage of convenience between hero and the unsuspecting and hitherto somewhat neglected daughter/niece/god-daughter of the house. Except that the heroine is usually threatened by more than a flimsy promise of sending her beloved pets away and the hero is always put through his paces rather more elaborately, so that by the end him falling in love with the heroine’s uniqueness doesn’t hit us all out of the blue. They hardly spent five hours together in this one and even if you suspend all your disbelief with the utmost goodwill in the world it’s difficult to swallow the whole sentimental aspect in this one. The evil step-mother/god-mother/aunt always dies if my memory serves me, and she dies in this one too, but it’s usually brought about through a clever scheme of the hero, and only in instances were the evilness of her scorned-other-woman situation is an active danger to him and his future happiness with the nubile young virgin fates have seen fit to bless him with. Here she dies at the hands of a hapless lover. Which was a surprise. One rather got the impression that the writer was bored and impatient to be just done with it. The whole thing was so obviously badly written that I can’t help but give another star because of the absurdity of what I just finished skimming through.

[Lawanda Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book

Another story plot, original and exciting. I couldn't put it down. I am going to read the next book. It is after midnight and I should go to sleep.