When beautiful and penniless Susannah first laid eyes on Mark Dewaine, she hated him.

Then circumstances led her to accept a post at Landeric, the legendary home of the Dewaines. Soon Mark began to appear in a different light - the light of love. But Susannah had little hope that the proud heir to Landeric would look in her direction.

Susannah did not know then of the disturbing secret of her birth - nor of the way it would change her whole life. Nor did she know of the terrible dangers that lay hidden behind a loving mask.

Here is the spellbinding tale of a lovely young woman pursued by a proud family's shameful past...from a Cornwall mansion to the fabled Crystal Palace in London to glittering Venice...and coming ever closer to the terrible menace of her Dark Inheritance.