The Rose and the Yew Tree
Author: Mary Westmacott
Desc: Everyone expected Isabella Charteris sheltered and aristocratic to marry her cousin Rupert St. Loo when he came back from the War. She had known Rupert since childhood. He was handsome strong and deeply in love with her. Everyone agreed it would have been such a suitable marriage they were a perfect match. How strange then that John Gabriel an war hero and and one of the candidates in a post-war election in Cornwall should appear in her life. Nobody expected Isabelle to fall for him. John was Rupert's opposite -- a man of ruthless ambition overwhelming appetites who desired Isabella but despised everything she stood for. From the moment they met Isabella knew John would gladly destroy her… yet she could not resist him… For Isabella the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of home and happiness forever. For John it would destroy his chance of a career and all his ambitions....