The Black Candle

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Inheriting her father’s businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three, heiress Bridget Mordaunt was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one.

Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but Victoria’s happiness was paramount to her.

A pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come, linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their house. A rich, multigenerational saga from Britain’s best-loved storyteller.