12. Love and Lucia

Love and Lucia by Barbara Cartland

12. Love and Lucia

Written by Barbara Cartland

Collection

Eternal Collection

Location

England

Period

1824

Genre

Magnificent Marquises

Heroine

Lucia

Published

01 December 2012

Even amid the genteel grandeur of Venice, the Marquis of Winchcombe ennui is undiminished. His fiery mistress Francesca, a beautiful and flamboyant Venetian actress, bores him almost as much as the company of the Beau Monde and royal acolyte with whom he associates. So when an impoverished but delicately alluring young Englishwoman Lucia accosts him at a café and beseech him to peruse the painting of her dying father, he is intrigued more so when he realises that Lucia’s father is a genius… But then he dies. Lucia is distraught and destitute but the Marquis saves her from penury by buying her father’s every painting, promising to take her home to England. Enraged by her beau’s apparent infatuation with the young ingénue, Francesca stabs him with a stiletto… But it’s Lucia who has truly pierced his heart and stolen his soul and just as the Marquis thinks she will be his forever, she delivers the heartbreaking words: ‘Although I love you with all my heart I cannot be your wife…’

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