Verity

Original title: The Clouded Hills.

VERITY BARFORTH WAS AN UNTOUCHED GIRL OF 17 WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED. SHE WAS A WOMAN OF 26 WHEN SHE FELL IN LOVE.

Verity knew well why her handsome, womanizing cousin Joel Barforth wed her. She was heiress to a great Yorkshire weaving mill, and her husband lusted for wealth as keenly as he lusted for her.

In return, Joel gave her all a nineteenth-century wife could expect - a fine home, servants, children, even a growing knowledge of sensual pleasure. Then Verity met a man as different from Joel as day from night - Crispin Aycliffe, bitter foe of all that her husband represented - and in his arms she surrendered to the overwhelming, terrifying force of love.