Trenhawk — Mary Williams

The granite-faced mansion of Trenhawk looms over the young life of Adelaide Hawksley. Cruelly widowed in the Crimean War, she turns her back on London to claim her husband David's ancestral home on the storm-tossed Cornish moors. But Trenhawk has a rival heir, the stubborn and domineering Rupert Hawksley. In the shadowy passages hung with portraits, the deserted tower and the faded drawing room that once rang with laughter, the whispering voices of Trenhawk tell Adelaide to leave.