Kingsland — Deborah Hill

PASSION'S PAWNS -- Young Emily Merrick was a novice to love when she met handsome, charming Tim Bradley. But she responded to him with all a woman's passion, in an affair that seemed a heaven to be endlessly explored -- until it turned into a hellish nightmare. -- For Emily never suspected that Tim was really in love with another woman, a woman forbidden to him by ties of blood. And when his sinful desires drove him to abandon Emily, she was forced into marriage to a man she despised, in order to give a name to a child born of her illicit union.

Kingsland is the story of Emily, fighting to salvage her life, and of her son Steven, who thought he had freed himself from the shadow of his mother's shame -- only to inherit a legacy of guilt in a way he never could have dreamed.