This Ravaged Heart — Barbara Riefe

A SWEEPING NOVEL OF TEMPESTUOUS ROMANCE AND MONSTROUS EVIL

Lisa Allworth Dandridge, a young English bride, came to America as mistress to a vast shipping fortune. Desperately in love, she and her dashing husband, Ross, never dreamed that they would soon be parted by malevolent forces beyond their control.

A monumental romance of agonizing passion, insatiable greed and terrible evil. A breathtakingly powerful story of one woman's tender love and another's overwhelming jealousies. Their struggle for the same man sweeps across continents and across time -- from the 19th Century world of aristocratic splendor to plague-ridden London; from the heights of passion to the darkest pits of hell. It is a magnificent novel of star-crossed lovers caught in a web of horror told by the new mistress of high romance.