They wed in haste—Nora Thorngoode, to save her ruined
reputation, and Grayson Lowell, to rescue his estate from
foreclosure for unpaid debts. Each resents the necessity to
exchange vows that will bind them for all time, and yet
from the first, passion flames between them… quickly
engulfing them in a sensual obsession...
But soon the lover that Nora married becomes a dark
stranger to her, a man torn apart by guilt over his brother
Tom’s recent, mysterious death…and driven half-mad by
ghostly specters who demand that Gray expose the truth. Has
Nora married a murderer whose wicked deeds blacken
everything around them? Or, together, in the secret
passageways of Blackheath Grange and along Cornwall’s
remote coastline, can Gray and Nora discover what really
happened that terrible night…and in setting free the
troubled ghosts, free themselves as well?