23 The White Witch ebook | Barbara Cartland | 9781906950989

The Marquis of Wynstanton had become
  involved with one of the beauties of London Society – Locadi, Lady Marshall
  and when her husband died unexpectedly, the Marquis set out on a long journey
  to India and Nepal, as he wished to avoid any gossip arising about their
  liaison.

  After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time
  when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate.Then
  he began to suspect that Locadi was using black magic to entice him to her and
  to induce him to propose marriage.Almost in a panic the Marquis returned to
  his estate, which he had neglected for so long only to find to his horror
  that he had been cheated by the manager he had left in charge.At Wyn Castle
  he meets Flora Romilly, the daughter of a distinguished author. She is known
  locally as the White Witch, because she can heal ailments with plants and
  leaves from her herb garden and has worked wonders with his grandmother’s
  rheumatism.How Flora despises the Marquis as she is so disgusted at the way
  his people have been treated in his absence.

  How she is persuaded to help him make amends and put matters to rights on
  the estate.

  And how in fleeing from London the Marquis has not escaped from Locadi and
  her evil magic is all told in this unusual and exciting story by BARBARA
  CARTLAND.

Barbara Cartland was the world’s most
  prolific novelist who wrote an amazing 723 books in her lifetime, of which no
  less than 644 were romantic novels with worldwide sales of over 1 billion
  copies and her books were translated into 36 different languages.

  As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6
  autobiographies, theatrical plays and books of advice on life, love, vitamins
  and cookery.

  She wrote her first book at the age of 21 and it was called Jigsaw.   It became an immediate
  bestseller and sold 100,000 copies in hardback in England and all over Europe
  in translation.

  Between the ages of 77 and 97 she increased her output and wrote an
  incredible 400 romances as the demand for her romances was so strong all over
  the world.

  She wrote her last book at the age of 97 and it was entitled perhaps
  prophetically The Way to Heaven. 

  Her books have always been immensely popular in the United States
  where in 1976 her current books were at numbers 1 & 2 in the B. Dalton
  bestsellers list, a feat never achieved before or since by any author.

  Barbara Cartland became a legend in her own lifetime and will be best
  remembered for her wonderful romantic novels so loved by her millions of
  readers throughout the world, who have always collected her books to read
  again and again, especially when they feel miserable or depressed.

  Her books will always be treasured for their moral message, her
  pure and innocent heroines, her handsome and dashing heroes, her blissful
  happy endings and above all for her belief that the power of love is more
  important than anything else in everyone’s life.