The Unknown Path

by Anne Meredith

"Then it was too late, she was in his arms and with the first touch passion rose like a tidal wave and he knew he could not let her go. The gulf of years was bridged so that it no longer existed for either of them. In that first moment of their coming together he knew such delight as had not come his way in twenty years... At length he relaxed his hold, her face was stung with color where his lips had covered it with kisses...
" 'I'll keep myself safe,' she said, 'against all peering eyes and muttering tongues, for you, my own darling, for you...'"

That was how the affair began. For five years Oliver Youngman and Lily Brown defied convention to share love's happiness - and its pain. How could they have known that cruel fate would intervene, when the flame of passion had blinded them to the hazards of The Unknown Path.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

Librarian's note: there is more than one author with this name.

Anne Meredith was a pseudonym of Lucy Malleson (1899-1973) who is best known as the author of the Arthur Crook series of detective novels published under the name of Anthony Gilbert . She was a highly esteemed writer of crime fiction and a member of the elite Detection Club, but the 'Anne Meredith' books were out of print for many years.