Sweet Jael — Sarah Farrant

Fatal star-crossed love...
She had beauty, intelligence and ambition. But in Victorian England, these were exactly the wrong qualities for a poor and unmarried woman to possess. Life could be cruel and unfair for the weak. Jeal resolved to have wealth and security no matter what the sacrifice. She would be the mistress of her fate and damn the conventions and hypocrisies of the time. She never counted on falling in love...