Love's Silent Gift

He was beyond hope: too full of evil, guilt, fear and despair, for effective service to society or to God—wasn't he?

Cyprian Westover, marked as a man who has chosen the path of evil in his eighteenth-century England, spent his youth vigorously indulging selfish pleasures. When he eventually comes to the conclusion that he needs an heir to carry on his estate, he discovers that his pursuit of a wife leads to boredom and disillusionment. But upon meeting the refreshingly innocent Angela Byngstone, he realizes that she alone can fulfill all his expectations.

Even then the descending spiral of evil has not taken its final toll. Haunted by overwhelming guilt, torn by misunderstandings, and ruled by the fear of losing everything, Cyprian sinks to the lowest depths of humanity.

What does the "silent gift" hold out to such a one?