Affinity — Katherine Hale

The ancient oaks of Marwood dropped their dark leaves the day Allegra arrived...and the night spoke of sorrow as she lay beside her husband that first eve.

Richard's cruel moods broke her heart and the fires of passion fled her eyes until she saw Edmund -- the man few women denied, the man who had never known love.

The two were brothers, and caught between the savage wickedness of one and the tender yearnings of the other, stood Allegra -- a wisp of a woman's pain and beauty, searching for the dawn of her love.