The Devil Defeated

by Barbara Cartland

Black magic? Dorina Stanfield, the Vicar's young and lovely daughter could not believe that she was hearing Jarvis Yarde's murderous incantations against the one man who stood between himself and the ancient Earldom of Yardcombe. Yet it was true... and only Dorina could combat the gathering forces of evil that menaced the handsome raffish Earl who had captured her shy and secret heart....

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Fiction

166 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published July 1, 1986

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Kimberly Karalius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Witchcraft! This book has some villain - Jarvis, who almost successfully poisons Oscar, and uses the distraction of letting a crow loose in Oscar’s bedroom to attempt to poison him again! That was a pretty exciting scene that ends somewhat like The Princess Bride’s Vizzini scene. Dorina is our heroine (and the Vicar’s daughter) who spends much of the book schooling Oscar, the new Earl, in how to run his estate because he never expected to inherit and totally botched it when he first arrived. I didn’t see Oscar as much of a rake, but him learning his new role and believing in Dorina’s knowledge got him major points from me.

[grace saint · Rating 2 out of 5]

picked this up in a charity shop after reading the authors note that mentioned rituals and the hell fire caves in high Wycombe, none of this came up in the book. it was a silly harmless story for a teenage girl, it was fine

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

After the death of the kindly old Earl of Yardecombe, Oscar the brash and pleasure-seeking new Earl seems to care little for the people of the Parish – let alone for the plight of young Dorina Stanfield, her widowed father and their impoverished family at the rundown Vicarage.
Dorina’s opinion of this raffish gentleman is lower still when she hears of lewd goings-on with his flamboyant friends at the ‘Big House’. Confronting his Lordship, Dorina is stunned to find him chastened by her accusations. Nevertheless, she is unconvinced.
Everything changes, though, when Dorina overhears the Earl’s wicked heir presumptive’s Satanic incantations, summoning the Devil to murder his Lordship.
Suddenly what she thought was hatred for Oscar turns into a Divine and eternal love that swiftly conquers the perpetrator of this devilry – but will the elusive Earl ever feel the same about her?

Black magic? Dorina Stanfield, the Vicar's young and lovely daughter could not belive that she was hearing Jarvis Yarde's murderous incantations against the one man who stood between himself and the ancient Earldom of Yardcombe. Yet it was true...and only Dorina could combat the gathering forces of evil that menaced the handsome raffish Earl who had captured her shy and secret heart...