The Fortunate Miss East — Laurence Meynell

AN EXQUISITE NOVEL OF A VANISHED AGE AND A WOMAN'S INMOST HEART

The time is the golden Edwardian summer of 1910. In the English country town of Brightsea, a mysterious arrives, seeking to rent an isolated cottage. Barely in her thirties, still displaying the traces of a fabulous youthful beauty, she is clearly a lady, and just as clearly "a woman with a past". What tragedy had scarred her life and disfigured one side of her magnificent face? What was the secret that had ravished Elizabeth East's heart as surely as it had her loveliness? Here is a novel of high romance, thrilling suspense and startling passion.