The Queen Saves a King

by Barbara Cartland

In order to protect his country from the might of Russia, the King of Vultarnia appeals to Queen Victoria to find him an English wife. Pythia was aghast at her own daring. The diminutive young beauty had impulsively taken her cousin's place in a marriage decreed by Victoria herself! Now settled in a distant land, the lovely imposter is determined to be a worthy Royal to her new subjects -- and a true consort to their dashing, cosmopolitan King Aleksius. Wed in name only, Pythia had fallen in love with her husband... an vowed to win his errant heart. But just as they discovered the radiant promise of their union, deadly treachery flared. And Pythia must act boldly once more -- to foil a foreign monarch's plot -- and claim love's deep and enduring miracle!