House of Destiny

Anne Worboys

Cassandra Neilson's entrepreneurial skills have made her consultancy business in Los Angeles a great success. Returning to England eight years later when her father's health fails, she discovers that their family home, the gardener's cottage in the grounds of sprawling Bevington Hall, is to be sold. Cassandra determines to fight. But the Earl of Bevington desperately needs extra income from his estate just to keep going. Cassandra compromises by offering her expertise: she could organise the opening of his stately home to the public. But this means working side-by-side with the heir, Jonathan. Once a childhood sweetheart, Jonathan needs a rich wife, which was the reason Cassandra was tactfully removed from the scene to relations in California .. .