Kelston Knoll — Catherine Dupre

No place for innocence.

When beautiful Harriet Lidell came to the magnificent estate of Kelston Knoll as bride-to-be of Walter Boddam, she felt agonizingly lost and alone in this place a world away from her sheltered London home. Here she would have to take her place as a member of the proud clan that had lived at Kelston Knoll for centuries. She would have to learn what it was to be wife to a man like Walter, so sensitive and gentle in London, so much a stranger here. She would have to deal with his older brother, Bod, handsome, swaggering, fearfully virile, whose gaze told her all she had to know about his hunger for her. Here she would have to leave Victorian girlhood behind, and discover what kind of woman she was.

Kelston Knoll is the story of this woman, the family she entered and came to rule, the forbidden desire stronger than even her fierce ambition, and the legacy she left to those who came after her.