Claire Author:Dorothea Malm She lived only for revenge. — In Linnet Hall, surrounded by its huge park and ancient trees, a penniless girl is hired as governess, cruelly treated and then, suddenly, disgraced and driven out into the world alone and friendless. — Years later, fate brought Claire back to Linnet Hall. She had been a woman of the streets, mistress of powerful men... more ». Now she is determined to punish the man responsible for her shame . . .
Told in the tradition of REBECCA, against the elegance of a 19th-century country house and the brawling London streets, here is a spellbinding novel of romance and terror, of a passionate love affair rent by violence and fear.« less