The Circling Years — Janice Young Brooks

ONE WOMAN'S SECRET SHAME

Beautiful Grace Thorne seemed a perfect wife to her powerful husband and the ideal of all a lady should be. Only she knew the shocking secret of her girlhood. Only she knew the need that threw her into the arms of armament king Frederich Von Holdt, who awakened forbidden hungers of the flesh.

ANOTHER WOMAN'S GUILTY DESIRE

Laura Thorne is Grace's granddaughter -- and Grace hoped to expunge her sins by giving this little girl all that love and money could grant. But Grace could not stop Laura from being torn between the man who offered Laura his distinguished name in marriage, and the lover who offered her the first taste of ecstasy.

Here is a powerful novel of a proud American dynasty that sweeps over two continents and three generations -- and into the hearts of two beautiful women....