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Love in pity
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  • paperback· 215 pp9780099133506
First published 1939

Love in pity

The Gods Forget

By Barbara Cartland

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Behind closed doors

Beautiful innocent Jacinda was defiant when Helen, her ravishing and impulsive mother, took her sister Fleur and fled the Castle. Since then, Jacinda had dedicated herself to her wilful and exhorbitant father, Lord Buckingham Coombe. But his scandalous behavior had driven her childhood love from her. And finally, one drunken night, he had sold the Castle, the last remnant of the family's opulence, to a stranger from London. All that was finest in her life had been torn from her. Jacinda vowed to avenge herself. She would marry Morgan Wright, the dashing rich stranger her father had sworn to eternal enmity. But Jacinda's troubled heart soon wavered from hatred. Little did she realize the overwhelming power of determination and love....

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Marriage of ConvenienceRelationshipEnemies to LoversRelationshipRevenge PlotPlotForced ProximityRelationshipSlow BurnRelationshipHe Falls First and HarderRelationshipSecond ChanceRelationship
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