Description
Lavinia Reed, classically beautiful with hair the shade of moonlight and eyes the color of violets, is uncharacteristically horrified when her husband announces that she is to take her annual holiday at Martland Farm in Cleave, for he doesn't know that Cleave, many years past, had been the setting for his wife's misbegotten romance with the perplexing Lord Francis Aubrey. Stifling these unpleasant memories, Lavinia journeys to Cleave, accompanied by her maiden sister, Caroline Prior. There, the two women are thrust into the midst of a romantic intrigue revolving around none other than the enigmatic Lord Francis Aubrey....