The temptation of Torilla

The Marquis of Havingham visits his mother in Harrogate to tell her he intends to marry Lady Beryl Fern, the most acclaimed beauty in the Prince Regent’s circle. His mother is perturbed and worried because she knows her son is not in love. Also in Yorkshire, Torilla, the daughter of a clergyman working in the mining village of Barrowfield, learns from her cousin Lady Beryl that she is to be married. With great difficulty the money is found for Torilla to journey South because she is to be bridesmaid at the wedding. How Torilla and the Marquis encounter each other on their separate journeys, how their meeting alters the lives and conditions of many people and how heartache and misery eventually end in happiness, is told in this 207th book by Barbara Cartland.