Hester — Margaret Lewerth

He was irresistible. He swept her off her feet with a promise of love everlasting. His wild kisses awakened feelings she had never known. His burning touch closed her eyes to the consequences.

Then Michale Roundtree vanished, leavings Hester with a living legacy, a memory of pain, and the certain knowledge that the Roundtree demon possessed them all.

Even John - so unlike his brother. He, too, vowed to love and cherish her "till death do us part." He too, carried the curse of a family that commanded others to their pleasure; bent other to their will.

She was born Hester Brady. A deathless passion drew her into the Roundtree circle. Her secret bound her irrevocably to them...yet kept her forever apart from...the Roundtree women.