Back cover: Carew Ralegh: Haunted by the unjust execution of his father, he sought honor with a king he did not respect -- and passion with another man's wife ... Philippa Ashley: Forced to marry a man many years her senior, she greeted widowhood with a lust for love that knew no bounds -- and fell prey to the first tenderness that touched her ... Lucia Dacre: She was a beautiful wife, a perfect mother, but within her heart she nurtured the embers of a passion that could never be with a man she had to have ... A sweekping epic of honor and obsession in seventeenth century England.
