Tenant of Chesdene Manor // Beloved Diana — Alice Chetwynd Ley

Dazzling, fearless, she was a gambler's daughter betting life and love in a wager of the heart....

A PLAY OF PASSION IN FORTUNE's HAND

Beautiful, enterprising, keen-witted Diana. Her sole legacy was the use of a small wing of the once glorious Chesdene Manor, ancestral home of the Chalfonts. Ingenuity suggested leasing the delapidated main house for income to sustain herself and her widowed mother.

What mysterious force brought the handsome, brooding Christopher Richmond to apply for tenancy of that crumbling ruin? His mysterious presence deeply roused her, but with him came ominous shadows and dark signals of danger. Suddenly her life was a plaything in fortune's hand, and she saw no alternative but to risk everything on the clear dictates of her passionate, adventurous heart....

Original title: Tenant of Chesdene Manor.
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Corgi UK Edition: THE TENANT OF CHESDENE MANOR

Diana Chalfont and her mother were left nearly penniless when gambling-happy Sir Peter Chalfont died.

So they resolved to find a tenant to share the neglected Chesdene Manor - and from nowhere came Mr Richmond who accepted the tenancy.

He was a quiet, good-looking man - about whom no one seemed to know very much at all...

But then Diana went to stay in London with her cousins, she met him frequently at parties and balls - so who was he> And what was his interest in the manor house?

The answers lay somewhere among the tombstones in Chesdene churchyard...