Dorothy Eden Books

It was her aristocratic beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested from the wilderness. But as Eugenia learns more of the ruthlessly ambitious man she has married and the rugged land he has brought her to, the very elegance and delicacy her husband prized in her soon prove liabilities. She is appalled by many aspects of plantation life - the convict slave laborers, the suffocating summer heat, the merciless winters. It is a maid who seems to be the real mistress of Yarrabee.

It seemed that nothing would ever upset the joys of marriage for Emma and her husband Barnaby, even though she knew little about the man she had met and married in a matter of weeks. Then the unpleasant rumors started - that Barnaby's first wife disappeared under sinister circumstances; that no one really knew what happened to the two pretty young governesses who simply ran off without cause or explanation. Emma trusted Barnaby; there were no questions she could or would ask him. But when a pathetic, lonely grave turned up in the field, her loyalty to her brood-ing, secretive husband gave way to cold, hard fear ...