Love by the Lake Number 39 in the Barbara Cartland Pink Collection Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away. Her stepfather, Ralph Piran is forcing her to accept the attentions and perhaps an offer of marriage from his business partner, Murdock Tanner, who is very rich but old and repulsive. While she is trying to cover her tracks in London she bumps into a smallboy, Simon, who is weeping because he has been beaten cruelly by hisstepmother. Because it seems a strange coincidence and because Lolita is desperately sorry for the small boy, she listens to his story and agrees to take him tohis uncle, Lord Seabrook, who lives in a castle by Lake Ullswater. When they arrive at the castle, Lord Seabrook accepts Lolita's suggestion that she is employed as Simon's governess, calling herself Mrs. Bell. Lord Seabrook is being pursued by Lady Cressington, one of the great beauties of London, and she has stolen a valuable necklace from the fianc she has jilted. How Lolita unwittingly starts a chain of events which alerts her stepfather to her where abouts, how she attempts to run away again this time from Lord Seabrook, and eventually finds the happiness she is seeking is alltold in this enchanting romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
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