Sound of the Sea — Ruth Abbey

A mysterious man wishes to marry Elizabeth even though she seems to be the double of his late wife.

Brought up by a fanatically religious mother, Elizabeth Lister at eighteen is immature and unworldly. When, in the space of a few days, she loses both her mother (through death) and the man to whom she is betrothed, Elizabeth, heartbroken and embittered, is driven to enter a world of which she knows absolutely nothing. She decides to accept an offer of marriage which will give her wealth, position and security. It is a decision whose consequences are to threaten not only her sanity but her very existence. Set in the first decades of the nineteenth century, this fast-moving romantic-thriller is a tale of sinister cunning and deceipt, and of a love that refuses to die…