{"product_id":"just-fate","title":"Just Fate","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWidowed Mrs. Mansforde and her younger daughter Philomena (or ‘Mena’ for short) are pleasantly surprised when elder daughter Lais returns unannounced to the family home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThey have not seen her for an age, not even at her father’s funeral. And the news she brings is not so pleasant as it seems that she too has been widowed, but already has another wealthy and prestigious husband in her sights, the highly respected Duke of Kernthorpe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Duke, who is much older than Lais, has invited her to bring her mother to meet him, an invitation that Lais does not extend to young Mena, seeing how beautiful she has become. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMrs. Mansforde insists that Mena goes with her and then it is decided that she will pose as her mother’s employed companion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOnce at the Duke’s Castle Mena goes for a walk in the garden and then sees a stallion and rider galloping towards her. The horse is clearly out of control and throws the rider so Mena rushes over to see if he has been hurt. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHe is a handsome young man and when he looks up at Mena he thinks, because she is so beautiful, that she must be a Greek Goddess. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHe is then most impressed when Mena calms the stallion down by talking to him in a quiet gentle voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAt the Duke’s Castle love is to take each of the three women, Mena, Lais and their mother, by surprise and brings them ultimate happiness in the form of entirely unexpected suitors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.6pt; font-family: \" times new roman serif\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAnd it seems that Fate has brought them together at the magnificent but mysterious Kerne Castle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":50390122594608,"sku":"9781788670494","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/just-fate","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}