Description
A young Englishwoman, 19-year-old Gwendolyn, marries a rich and seductively mysterious widower, Laurence Hooper, after a whirlwind romance in London. When she joins him at his Ceylon tea plantation, she's certain she'll be the perfect wife and, someday, a mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful, and the neighbors and her new sister-in-law are treacherous. Gwen finds herself drawn to a Sinhalese man of questionable intentions and worries about the propriety of her husband's connection to an American widow. Most troubling are the terrible secrets in Laurence's past that soon come to light and force Gwen to make a devastating choice. What happened to his first wife? And will the darkness of his past destroy their marriage and Gwen's chance at happiness? Set in 1920s Ceylon.
Lush, sexy, atmospheric. Utterly engrossing, compulsive page-turner that climaxes with more than one heartbreaking twist.