A Man Without Mercy — Margery Hilton

Compassion and loyalty -- two endearing qualities, but they had brought Gerda to heartbreak and almost wrecked her chance of ever finding happiness. Compassion had led her into a brief and tragic marriage, and the sacrifice of her integrity in the eyes of the one man she really loved.

Three years later she was a widow, and loyalty -- to her employers -- had forced her back into the power of this one man who could destroy her. Loyalty of another sort had made Gerda give entirely the wrong impression of herself -- an impression that had not been forgotten by Jordan Black. Yet he was the man she loved as much as he despised her -- and he was a man without mercy...

Hero: Jordan Black
Heroine: Gerda Manston