Victoria Holt

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

Caroline Tressidor's innocent discovery of the identity of her real father leads to her disinheritance and blocks her possible marriage to Paul Landower, who must find a wealthy wife in order to save the family estate

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 …