heart finds love

The beautiful Alnina Lester is confronted with a formidable task whenher brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris.Shefinds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, which has been in the Lester family for generations, has to be sold.Even though she has sold a great number of treasures, she is still short of money.Alninagoes round the house to see what else she can find to sell.In hermother?s bedroom she sees her extraordinary and unusual wedding dress, which her father had found in China. Exquisitely embroidered, it wasdecorated with diamante and many precious stones.She decides shewould ask what seems to her a very large sum for it and advertises itin The Times.The advertisement is seen by the Duke of Burlingford, who is planning to visit Prince Vladimir Petrov in Georgia with hisfriend William Armstrong.They had been there several years earlier and found gold in one of the tall mountains of the Caucasus beforethe Duke through two unexpected deaths, succeeded to histitle.William warns him that Prince Vladimir is determined tomarry his daughter to an English Nobleman and it would therefore bedangerous for him to visit Tiflis in case he was forced by some meansor other up the aisle with the Princess.How the Duke concocts aplan and answers the advertisement for the wedding dress. How hefinds that Alnina can speak Russian fluently.And how he begs herto go out with him to Tiflis and then encounters a different dangerbut a very menacing one that leads them both eventually to theirhearts? desire is all told in this intriguing adventure by BARBARACARTLAND.