This Side of Innocence — Taylor Caldwell

Beautiful Amalie Maxwell, low-born, but driven by limitless desires, came to Riversend and instantly touched off a holocaust of passion, hatred and intrigue that blazed through three generations of the lordly Lindseys.

None but the supreme storyteller, Taylor Caldwell, could do justice to this story of a woman with hungers larger than life... of the man who won, but could never hold her... and of the other man, whose desire was only matched by his overmastering urge to destroy her.