Circle of Gold — Karen Harper

When Rebecca Blake was orphaned, she was adopted by the industrious, well-educated Kentucky Shakers, and raised in their secretive, sexually repressed world. Little did she envision that one day a forbidden love would thrust her from her innocent life of denial into the lavish, sophisticated world of Victorian England's ruling class. This is Rebecca's story -- of her courageous crusading for social reform...her tumultuous marriage and the terrible misfortune that ended it...and the passion and daring that returned her to her Kentucky roots and the childhood sweetheart she never forgot. Spanning two continents, this is the spellbinding saga of a beautiful and indomitable woman caught up in the surging tides of history and the crosscurrents of duty and desire....