Sweet Nightingale — Sheila Bishop

Canny and beautiful Tamsin Grove, daughter of a disinherited wastrel and a runaway gentlewoman, could not escape the stigma of her dissolute upbringing. All her beauty and wit would never make John de Laleham, heir to a noble house, regard her as anything more than a lovely provocative trifle.

John was young and impetuous and he hungered for Tamsin. But Tamsin remained obdurate -- she would be a wife not a mistress. Deadlocked in a contest of wills the two young lovers finally risked society's damnation by rebelling against the restrictions that kept them apart.