The Moon and the Thorn — B.J. Chute

She was a beautiful woman condemned to darkness by the past she could not escape…

Damned by Desire…

From the moment Henrietta had eloped with Charles, she was damned. She had known him for only a weekend, a weekend in which he was to propose to her own sister, a weekend which was to mark the beginning of a life of pleasure and torment for the rebellious Great Island beauty whose love in exile had made he a legend.

But now Charles was dead and she had come home -- only to find that the malicious whispers of the past had grown louder, and what were once vague warnings had suddenly become terrifying realities…