A Gift of Onyx — Jocelyn Kettle

18TH-CENTURY RURAL ENGLAND

Lady Eugenie was very young, very rich, and quite lovely. She could not understand why her handsome husband preferred his sturdy country mistress. One night when she tried to entice him, he turned from her in horror. "You look like a wanton with your hair all about the place. No decent woman goes to bed in that fashion!"

Years later Lady Eugenie, no longer a young girl, discovered passion in the arms of a stranger - a romantic Corsican, a married man. It was love as she dreamed of it. Ardent, tender, enchanting. And of course, forbidden. "Everyone should be enchanted once in her life," she told herself.

But for this she paid a price....