The House of Jackdaws — Alice Dwyer-Joyce

A young woman flees her unhappy Irish home for a nursing career in England but the financial collapse of her family's estate compels her to return-to serious illness and a handsome, mysterious young man.

Who is the stranger who comes out of the night of storm and lightning with raw and bleeding hands? He wears the name of Michael Grant on his stained, drenched olive-drab uniform. Castle Cormac has had many mysteries for Cordelia. She had been programmed for success in the Radio Therapeutic Department of a famous hospital, but finds herself clawed back to the House of Jackdaws -- a kingdom, like Lear's, of intrigue and suspense.