The most riveting portrait of a woman's passion since the Brontes' demon-haunted lovers. Melissa: Beautiful, obsessive, pledged to a terrifying devotion.... Geoffrey: Her husband, who raged and fought for her love..... Charles: Her father, who manacled her life to his own ravaging needs..... Taylor Caldwell enters the stark, brooding manse of nineteenth-century blue bloods to chronicle a compellling tale of treacherous loves
Taylor Caldwell is a brilliant writer.
She married a man she hated, to be true to another love.
"Strange . . . magnificent" THE NEW YORK TIMES
She married a man she hated, to be true to another love.
"Strange . . . magnificent" THE NEW YORK TIMES
