The Saffron Summer — Margaret Summerton

To Claudine Delamain, Saffron seemed like something out of another world -- a monument dedicated to the glory of the past. Yet to others, this great ancestral manor was something totally real, totally consuming…

Hermione Delamain -- a dying matriarch who lorded over her family with promises of wealth and power and in whose hands so many futures lay.

Conwyn Delamain -- a man obsessed by two things: a love of Saffron and a hatred for the man who threatened to take it from him.

Adam Terson -- whose birth had robbed him of a great inheritance and had planted in him the determination to get it back.

Bernard Andrews -- a stranger who had come from around the world to learn the truth behind one of Saffron's darkest and most tightly kept secrets: his sister's death.

Marcus Powell-Delamain -- whose claims on Saffron came second, the claim drink had one him, first.

These were people so completely possessed by a house -- and the earth beneath it -- that they would do anything to get it, anything not to lose it.



It all began with a memory.

An ancient graveyard…bowed heads…a child screaming…Claudine Delamain was being made to relive the nightmare that held the key to her past…

For fifteen years she had lived with her mother in France, knowing nothing of her real identity. Now, her mother's death, and old promise, and the sudden and mysterious appearance of a lost uncle bring her to Saffron -- her father's majestic family estate in the south of England.

No one warned her that she was being enticed into a trap many years in the making -- one deviously designed to shift family alliances.

Greed, hate, and love provide the motives for the disturbing events she finds at Saffron -- and murder the most disturbing of all!