Bitter Inheritance — Joyce Johnson

In Black Tors, on a bleak Cornish moor, the Grayhurst family squabble over a rumoured secret inheritance. Emma Cotleigh is nurse/companion to widowed matriarch Alice, who carries her own dark secrets. Into this web of intrigue and deceit Australian Brad Grayhurst arrives to fulfil a promise to his dying father to reconcile the family feuds. Dramatic events destroy Black Tors, nearly killing Alice, before revealing its mysterious secret. Now Emma and Brad are free to fall in love.