The Falcon and the Moon — Catherine Darby

The Victorian Age was at its sumptuous height when Leah Falcon became mistress of the great, tragedy-haunted family manor of Kingsmead. Proud as only a Falcon could be, Leah was brilliant far beyond her still tender years, and possessed of an inner strength that belied her sex.

Easily Leah dominated her sisters, lovely, sensual Edith, and sensitive, strangely gifted Elizabeth. Subtly she manipulated her brothers, Lord John Falcon, with his shameful secret flaw, and Price Falcon, with his wastrel ways and slavery to the pleasures of the flesh.

There was only one thing Leah could not control - the vulnerability of her own hungering woman's heart. And when a handsome, mysterious stranger come into her life to fill that aching void, Leah was powerless to resist him - or to prevent the evil and corruption he spread like a satanic spell over all who bore the Falcon name and the Falcon curse....