Briarlea — Eva Zumwalt

Elizabeth Hastings came to Briarlea as a member of the wedding party - and became the substitute bride....

As the rather reluctant wife of Jonathan Shepard, the bitter, tormented heir to the stately old mansion, she was determined to free herself from this mockery of a marriage.

Until two things happened: she fell hopelessly in love with her husband in name only; and she became the protector of a very small girl who was either the devil's own tool - or the target of a cunning madman....