House of Sorrows — Marjorie Bowen

A grand novel of passion, romance and mystery that leads from England to Scotland and Spain, about a wealthy and beuatiful woman who gives her heart to a man she does not love to recapture the hidden honor of her past, and of a handsome and courtly nobleman who plunges into a marriage of convenience in his obsessive pursuit of the fortune it will take to restore his cherished mansion to its former glory.

The passions of youth and power clash as each tries to conquer the other to achieve his own lusty ends. The fires of intrigue and involvement combine to drive the young heiress and the fanatic nobleman in a sweeping tale of desperate love that spans the English Channel.