Bride of Doom — Harriet Gray

Fauna, the beautiful quarter-caste slave-girl, had a daughter Fleur Roddney comes to the fore. As alluring and fatally captivating as her mother, Fleur 's life would never be a life of ease... This is Fleur's story. The story of an arranged marriage to the forbidding Baron of Cadlington, of her love for the young artist Peveril, of the darkly-predicted black heir who is born to her, of her fiery attempts to find escape, revenge - and fulfilment, of the restless urges that burn in her fated blood... Here at last -- from the hidden annals of history's most corrupt and scandalous era -- is the undiluted story of the tomrented loves and hates of the beautiful, long-limbed Fleur ... And the Baron St. Cheviot...