{"product_id":"9781908303462","title":"39. Love by the Lake TEST2","description":"Lady Lolita Vernon, daughter of the late Earl of Walcott and Vernon, has run away.\u003cbr\u003eHer 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.\u003cbr\u003eWhile she is trying to cover her tracks in London she bumps into a small boy, Simon, who is weeping because he has been beaten cruelly by his stepmother.\u003cbr\u003eBecause 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 to his uncle, Lord Seabrook, who lives in a castle by Lake Ullswater.\u003cbr\u003eWhen they arrive at the castle, Lord Seabrook accepts Lolita's suggestion that she is employed as Simon's governess, calling herself Mrs. Bell.\u003cbr\u003eLord Seabrook is being pursued by Lady Cressington, one of the great beauties of London, and she has stolen a valuable necklace from the fiancé she has jilted.\u003cbr\u003eHow Lolita unwittingly starts a chain of events which alerts her stepfather to her whereabouts, how she attempts to run away again this time from Lord Seabrook, and eventually finds the happiness she is seeking is all told in this enchanting romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.","brand":"Barbara Cartland.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137247166704,"sku":"9781908303462","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908303462_p0.jpg?v=1763620690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908303462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}