The Kissing Gate — Pamela Haines

SHE PASSED THROUGH THE GATEWAY OF OPPORTUNITY INTO A WORLD OF DANGEROUS DESIRE

When young parlormaid Sarah Donnelly saved the child of the aristocratic Ingham clan from drowning, she received the most enticing yet perilous of rewards. This lovely, unspoiled creature was elevated far beyond her station, educated to be a lady of the sort she had only admired from afar, and given in wedlock to wealthy, handsome Samuel Rawson, a gentleman who otherwise would never have noticed her.

Only later did Sarah discover the price she had to pay. For now her destiny and those of her sons and Kate, the beautiful foundling who came into their lives, were inextricably linked with the proud and willful Inghams, whose lusts were law, and who mocked all morality as they took what they wanted and destroyed what they would...