Book description
Summer 1815. Gloucestershire heiress Beth Tremoille is impoverished
by her scheming stepmother. Now a blacksmith's mistress, she steals
money paid by handsome, rich and ruthless Sir Guy Valmer, who
considers the Tremoille inheritance to be his. Unknown to Beth, he
means to force her into marriage after finding a missing will that
reinstates her as her father's heir. Fearing arrest for stealing, she
flees to London, where several brushes with Guy make her realise how
physically drawn to him she is. But fear makes her flee again, and
under a false name she leases a remote house on the coast of Exmoor.
There, believing herself safe, she meets a new love, wealthy landowner
Landry Haldane, with whom she embarks upon a passionate affair; but
Guy is still on her trail, and is gradually drawing closer. When he
finally catches her, she will have to choose her destiny.
