Lovers in Lisbon

by Barbara Cartland

Beautiful eighteen-year-old waif Felicita Galvão is penniless, almost starving and all alone in the world when the Duchesse de Monreuil finds her desperately trying to sell her needlework at the Grand Hotel in Lisbon. Struck by Felicita’s deep blue eyes – so different from those of any Portuguese girl she has ever seen – she offers to buy everything the girl has to sell and offers her a ride home in her carriage.
Something about this young beauty reminds the Duchesse of herself at the same age, when she first found the love of her life, Juan, the Marques de Oliveira Vasconles – said to be “the most handsome and the most exciting gentleman in the whole of Portugal”. Still deeply bitter over the way Juan abandoned her to marry another “whose blood is the equal of mine”, the Duchesse suddenly sees a way use this young innocent to wreak revenge.
Moving Felicita into her rented villa, she persuades her to impersonate the Duchesse’s niece the Comtesse Felicity de Monreuil and in that guise meet the current Marques Alvaro de Oliveira Vasconles. The Duchesse means to break the heart of her lost love’s son as hers was broken – but it seems that love or Fate means to deny her vengeance.

Genres: Romance

135 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2020

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

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