When Lady Caroline Faye (Allison Doody, Indiana Jones and the Last crusade) first meets the mysterious, handsome Lord Vane Brecon (Benedict Taylor, The Watcher in the Woods), he has been accused of murder — an accusation she seeks to disprove. Taking a position as companion to Brecons mother (Virginia McKenna, Born Free), she soon discovers that the family is not only wealthy in land and fortune, but rich in secrets. What mystery lurks in the family tower? Why is the maid Dorcas (Billie Whitelaw, The Omen) so faithful to Brecons mother, but distrustful of the housekeeper Mrs. Miller (Geraldine Chaplin, White Mischief)? The answer could lie with Brecons evil cousin and rival for the family fortune, Gervase (Michael York, Logans Run). Only one thin gis certain in Fayes mind: that true love and honor will survive the Duel of Hearts. A classic Barbara Cartland romance thriller.
Why you may wish to watch it: Because you are a fan of Barbara Cartland and are okay with a made for television oozing with smoldering romance plus murder movie. Included here because many of her fans love the movies. On her books, reader Rachel Hyland wrote “I smile as I recall the many happy hours I spent as a youngster immersed in these cookie-cutter perfect tales of endangered virtue, missing jewelry, foreign travel and disillusioned Dukes won over by sundry simpletons to whom they’d been reluctantly wed. Who cares if all the books blend amorphously into one another over time, that the girls are all chaste, the men all alpha males, and that they actually sit around shamelessly calling each other things like “Soul of my Soul”?”
Why you may wish to skip it: Because you are not already a big fan of Barbara Cartland. Let’s say the same for [A Ghost in Monte Carlo](http://amzn.to/1NFBFIZ) and [The Lady and the Highwayman](http://amzn.to/1NFBbm8),two films adapted from Cartland romances, though the latter one has a bit of a young Hugh Grant in it. If you want to venture into a Barbara Cartland adaptation, you may consider [A Hazard of Hearts](http://amzn.to/1KDtKel), for no real reason other than that it stars Helena Bonham Carter and is set in the Regency era.
Starring Alison Doody, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin.