Louise, the Restless

On the surface, Louise seemed the most perfect of Victorian young ladies--a beautiful, talented, charming creature, the apple of her physician father's eye, and a seemingly untouchable ideal to the young suitors who flocked around her.

Only Louise knew of the fever that burned in her blood, turning her life into an inferno of forbidden desire ... for a handsome, worldly aristocrat with too much sensual experience and seductive skill to be trusted ... for a dazzling concert pianist with a wife who refused to give him up ... for any man who promised to quench the raging fires that threatened to consume all of Louise's hopes and dreams. There had been many Phenwick women before Louise--but none so blessed with every grace, and so damned by a curse that turned passion to peril and made love another word for fear....