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The Windmill of Love - cover

The Windmill of Love

Barbara Cartland

Publisher: Barbara Cartland

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Summary

The breathless heart-fluttering tale of beautiful debutante ‘Valeria’ in glamorous, super-sophisticated Biarritz, Royalty’s favoured French resort. Where at once she is shocked to the core by the lewd dancing at the celebratedly sleazy Moulin de la Mer and swept off her feet by the genteel and dashingly handsome Comte de Savin! But their whirlwind romance is surely doomed – for soon she must disappear to meet her future groom never again to set eyes on the love of her life…
Available since: 12/05/2022.
Print length: 245 pages.

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