The Glass Virgin Author:Catherine Cookson Redford Hall — In its splendor, it was really two houses. In the Old Hall, Edmund Lagrange, a man of infinite, brooding evil, lived in dissolute glory, drinking and gambling away his wife's fortune. On the other side of this massive oak door which she was forbidden to open was his daughter Annabella. A beautiful girl, she was raised in genteel se... more »clusion to become the most fragile of Victorian creations, a lady. But at the age of seventeen Annabella learned the shameful secret of her birth and descended into a world of degradation and suffering. The only one to remain faithful to her in her new life was the handsome and mysterious man who defied all convention to save her.« less