The Long Corridor — Catherine Cookson

SHE WAS DESPERATELY, HELPLESSLY IN LOVE...

Ever since girlhood, Jenny Chilmaid had lived in the shadow of her stunningly beautiful cousin Bett. Bett made Jenny her best friend -- only to use her to witness her triumphs in love, and to listen to her cynical comments on the men she dazzled. Even when Bett married hard-working, intensely dedicated Dr. Paul Higgins, she did not hide from Jenny her scorn of him and her infidelity.

Jenny knew that Bett was destroying Paul as a man and as a doctor. She tried to pretend that it was only to save him that, for the first time in her life, she took sides against Bett. But Jenny could not escape the truth. She was as sinful as Bett ever was. For she was passionately driven in her desire for this man who was possessed by her ravishing cousin -- and she would battle Bett on her own grounds to have him...