The Reluctant Paragon — Sarah Farrant

Wages of Love

Pretty Ruth Gillard had returned to Mariner's Meed with a heavy heart. Her handsome cousin's inexplicable and fatal accident had brought her beloved grandfather to grievous illness and an air of menace to the once-joyous manor on the wind-swept Cornwall cliffs. And, though Ruth wished to deny it, the fact that the man she loved was now engaged to another only heightened the gloom.

Still, Ruth knew her presence would aid her grandfather's recovery, and was determined to remain until that was complete. But such was not to be, for suddenly Ruth's loving attentions were insidiously turned against her -- and the reward for her kindness was to her own sentence of death...

Also published as: Lady Of Mariner's Meed