The Island Of Love

Sir Robert Westbury has two young daughters, Heloise, the beautiful ‘English Rose’ and her demure but lovely older sister Lydia, who lives with the fact that her father is disappointed that she was not a son and therefore his heir!

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

When it is announced that her sister is to marry the dashingly handsome Earl of Royston and that he is whisking Heloise away, as he is to represent Queen Victoria at the Coronation of the King in the exotic Paradise of Hawaii, Lydia is expected to accompany her as a ‘lady’s maid’ on the journey. 

Unlike her sullen sister, she is thrilled by the prospect and rapidly becomes transfixed by the Earl’s charisma and charm and so she gradually begins to fall in love with the man she can never have.

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