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Almost identical in their golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty andsimilarly named, cousins Antonia ?Toni? Combe and Latonia Hythe arenevertheless very different personalities. Desperate to avoid ajourney to India forced on her by her stern uncle, Kenrick Combe, thenew Lord Branscombe, and which would prevent her marrying the man shedesperately loves , the flirtatious and capricious Toni beseeches hercousin to take her place as her Uncle Kenrick has not seen Toni formany years. So conscientious Latonia nervously accepts thepretence, assumes the role of her cousin and then sets sail with herstern protector for India. Berated and frowned upon by hisLordship for her cousin?s ?misdeeds?, Latonia nevertheless looksforward to the adventure of visiting and seeing India, until herdeception is revealed to his Lordship?s fury!But, when sheoverhears a sinister plot to kill him, she rushes in the night to warn him and is rewarded with passionate kiss, she suddenly knows that itis not hate but love that burns in her heart ? love for a man who must surely despise her forever ?
