The beautiful Iona Langdale is walking in her favourite wood your day before her wedding, which is planned to be a huge Society event with marquees and fireworks and attended by her large family and all her smart friends from London. She actually is musing dreamily about how happy she’ll be once she is wedded to her nearby neighbour, John Moreton, whom she has known since years as a child. Beside a hut with a pool in the solid wood, she views her fiancé’s horse tied up to a post and will hear voices via about The Bride-to-be Runs Apart (Barbara Cartland’s Green Collection 117) inside. She listens without actually meaning to which is John who’s talking with the Vicar’s little girl, Mary. He’s telling her how much he enjoys her, but he has to proceed through with marrying Iona because he needs her money to repair his house and pay back his father’s obligations and Iona can be a millionairess. Iona is normally deeply surprised and disillusioned and, despite her wedding happening tomorrow, she decides to hightail it as she cannot marry John after hearing that he is so desperately deeply in love with Mary. She cause being unsure of where she should go and after a number of ventures she unexpectedly turns into the cook in the wonderful home of the Earl of Woodbridge. The few servants in his house are frightened of him due to his bad temper which is normally caused by the actual fact that he provides spent several years looking for his family’s treasure hidden by his miserly uncle before he died, but to no get. The Earl provides spent all his money in looking for the elusive treasure and now he cannot even afford to pay his servants. How Iona cooks superb dishes for the Earl, how she will save his life and exactly how she finds the real like she is looking for is all informed in this fascinating tale by BARBARA CARTLAND.