Maiden Castle

When Sabine walked over the green battlements of Maiden Castle, she had no premonition of the strange future ahead, when she would reign as mistress in the great house. The scandal rocked society in the early nineteenth century, for gentlemen did not marry servant girls. Caught between her taciturn husband, and the wild, romantic Falcon, his nephew and heir, she was the reluctant instrument of a cruelly ingenious revenge. Larks sang high above the fields, voices were hushed in elegant drawing-rooms, while a savage battle raged between the two men with Sabine as an unwilling prize of war. Torn by conflicting emotions of hatred and love, she soon saw that death was the only outcome—but for whom?