Summer Darkness, Winter Light — Sylvia Halliday

The year is 1724. After eight years as an indentured servant in the American colonies, Allegra Baniard returns to England sworn to destroy the powerful family that brought her own to ruin. But the nobleman she finds at her ancestral home is not the man she has come to kill. He is Sir Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall...a man haunted by tragedy.

By turns cruel and seductive, Morgan provokes fear, fury -- and irresistible desire. But it is Allegra who shows him a love that will sweep them from the dark past into the bright light of tomorrow...a love that can redeem as well as destroy.