

Six Months on the NY Times Best Seller List
They say there is a secret self in every woman-one with a hidden passion, or a private happiness, ot a shadowy fear.
To all appearance Anna Brett was merely a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable antique business bequeathed her by a spinster aunt.
And so she was-until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity.
They say there is a secret self in every woman-one with a hidden passion, or a private happiness, ot a shadowy fear.
To all appearance Anna Brett was merely a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable antique business bequeathed her by a spinster aunt.
And so she was-until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity.