Book description
When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil,
rivalry is sure to take root and flourish. A glimmer of initiative
swells into blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester
into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born, the price for this
wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations
to settle. Richard Lanyon answers to no one save the aristocratic
Sweetwater family, owners of the land he farms. His bitter resentment is
legend within the bounds of their tiny Exmoor community, but as their
tenant, Richard must do their bidding. Still, even noblemen don't have
the power to contain ruthless ambition, and the Sweetwaters are no
exception. Driven to succeed, Richard is prepared to take what is not
his, and to forfeit the happiness of his family to claim the
entitlements he lusts for. In this epic story Valerie Anand creates a
vivid portrait of fifteenth-century English life that resonates with the
age-old themes of ambition, power, desire and greed. When two
ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is
sure to take root and flourish. A glimmer of initiative swells into
blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a
malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born, the price for this wild
and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to
settle. Richard Lanyon answers to no one save the aristocratic
Sweetwater family, owners of the land he farms. His bitter resentment is
legend within the bounds of their tiny Exmoor community, but as their
tenant, Richard must do their bidding. Still, even noblemen don't have
the power to contain ruthless ambition, and the Sweetwaters are no
exception. Driven to succeed, Richard is prepared to take what is not
his, and to forfeit the happiness of his family to claim the
entitlements he lusts for. In this epic story Valerie Anand creates a
vivid portrait of fifteenth-century English life that resonates with the
age-old themes of ambition, power, desire and greed.
