The tenth Earl of Narbrooke is a miser. He is obsessed with cash and is ready to starve himself as well as his home and will not give a cent to his family members even though he or she is the Head from it. He has locked himself apart in his huge mansion and neglects the estate until it turns into a disgrace. Colonel Euan Campbell, who had been wounded in the Battle with Napoleon, is very hard-up and accepts the positioning of controlling the Earl’s horses. He is given a cottage for his wife and his little girl, about A Golden Lay (Barbara Cartland’s Red Collection 113) Devona, aged thirteen. The Colonel is usually killed by a wild horse the fact that Earl insists on buying because it was cheap and, because they are destitute, Mrs. Campbell and Devonia are used into the big home in order to help the servants although they aren’t paid. Mrs. Campbell dies of pneumonia in the unheated home while Devona stays on. The other morning the miserly Earl is found inactive from a stroke and Devona transmits a message to another Earl who lives in London. Before he gets there, however, she discovers the Earl’s will in which every cent he possesses is to be buried with him. Because she is terrified that the brand new Earl will be like his brother, she burns the will, convinced that if the amount of money would go to the family they will help her. When the new Earl will arrive, he is the miser’s nephew also to Devona’s shock he is youthful, tall and attractive so when he asks the beautiful Devona who she is, because she is so scared, she says that she actually is the little girl of his uncle. How after the funeral the new Earl visits the lender and discovers that his uncle has left an enormous fortune of one million pounds. How Devona is definitely stunned to discover that as she is the next of kin, the money would go to her. How she comes to an arrangement with the brand new Earl and exactly how because it leakages out that she actually is the heiress she actually is terrorised with a fortune-hunter, but eventually finds love is normally all told with this unusual tale by BARBARA CARTLAND.