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The Island Of Love

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Sir Robert Westbury has two young daughters – Heloise, the beautiful “English Rose” and her demure older sister Lydia, who lives with the fact that her father is disappointed that she was not a son!

Since their mother died when they were children, self-effacing Lydia has grown accustomed to taking care of Heloise pandering to her every whim.

When it is announced that her sister is to marry the dashingly handsome Earl of Royston – and that he is whisking Heloise away to be married in the exotic paradise of Hawaii – Lydia is expected to accompany her as a “lady’s maid”. Unlike her sullen sister, she is thrilled by the prospect – and, transfixed by the Earl’s charisma and charm, she begins to fall in love with the man she can never have.

But Fate takes a hand in the shape of a storm on the voyage that casts Lydia and the Earl overboard and washes them up alone on a desert island: the Island of Love, which will change Lydia’s life forever.

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Author’s NoteWhen I visited Hawaii in 1983, I found it very very beautiful. I saw the Iolani Palace built by the ‘Merry Monarch’, King Kalakaua, and the famous Waikiki beach. In 1889 His Majesty lent the Royal Beach House, which I mention in this novel, to Robert Louis Stevenson. The author was, on his arrival in Hawaii, greeted as a celebrity and struck up a warm friendship with the King and they frequently gave luaus and informal parties for each other. The details of King Kalakaua’s Coronation, which lasted for two weeks, are correct and it took place in 1883, nine years after he had been elected to the throne by the Legislative Assembly. Hawaii although over-built and over-populated is still magical and, when at Diamond Point I looked out at dawn and dusk, I found myself repeating Rupert Brooke’s sonnet, “And her stars burn in the ancient skies Over the murmurous soft Hawaiian sea.”

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