The Brittle Glass — Norah Lofts

FROM THE BEGINNING PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT HER...

Young Sorrel Kingaby, who inherited her father's fortune and business, was not at all the usual kind of woman. Oh, she was easy to look at, with her sea-green eyes and shining red hair, but everyone could see her heart belonged to Kingaby Ltd. Some people were afraid of her, others envied her. Everyone gossiped.

Sorrel did not even dream of romance. Then suddenly she fell in love with Jamie Brooke, a brash young rogue who betrayed her.

She had almost given up hope of love when Dan came into her life. But Dan lived on the wrong side of the law and for the first time Sorrel knew the meaning of fear...

THE BRITTLE GLASS -- a passionate novel of a 19th-century English woman who had the courage to live a 20th-century life.