Victoria Holt

To all appearances, Anna Brett was a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable antiques business bequeathed her by a spinster aunt. And so she was -- until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity. It was then …

When her famous mother's acting career suffers a serious setback, Sarah accompanies her to Ashington Grange, learns more about the father she has never seen--the owner of a tea plantation in Ceylon, and becomes increasingly attracted to Clinton Shaw