Moment of the Rose — Maryhelen Clague

When spirited, beautiful Eleanor MacClaren first met Douglas Brennon, she was only sixteen years old. Worse, she was the daughter of a British Major and Brennon was an American soldier in the colonial army. Their passion for each other was honeycombed with danger. -- Then her father forced her to marry a wealthy but savage-tempered English officer, Geoffrey Conant. To Geoffrey, disciplining his reluctant wife was one of the pleasures of his marriage.

Eleanor promised herself she would run away the first chance she got, and always, she searched for the man who had been driven from her life, the one man she could ever truly love...