Love Locked In – Barbara Cartland

Description

Although they have never met, Syrilla first fell in love with Aristide, Duc de Savigne, when she was nine years old.

Now Syrilla is eighteen and the Duc thirty. She is overjoyed when a marriage of convenience is proposed for, living quietly in the country with her father, she is unaware that Aristide’s scandalous exploits in Paris have made his name a byword for debauchery.

Aristide declines to meet his mother’s choice of a bride for him, vowing that after the ceremony he will quickly return to the pleasures of the capital.

How Syrilla changes his mind, braves unexpected dangers and teaches Aristide the meaning of true love makes for a captivating romance of nineteenth-century France.