Tragically orphaned when a storm at sea claimed the lives of her parents and baby brother, Clemence Kinrade was given a home by her uncle, Jesse, whom she loved dearly — perhaps too dearly. When Jesse took a wild and wanton Irish girl for his bride, Clemence, growing to womanhood, felt the sharp pangs of jealousy. But handsome, menacing Luke Karran was soon to occupy all her thoughts. Luke, son of the black-eyed Johanne, thought by many to be a witch, was driven by dark and destructive urges...
At the Midsummer Revels, Clemence, emboldened by a love-philtre. meets Luke in a passionate encounter — but when she finds she is with child, Luke is cold and distant, his affections by now elsewhere... until the night when he walks with Clemence on the treacherous Chasms...
Anne Lamb was born on 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK, daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier. She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls. She worked as civil servant on Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1942 to 1950. On 1th October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle, and had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain.
When she published her first novel in 1967, she won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Cat on a Broomstick (1970) and Flower of Silence (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died in 1970. Anne Rundle died on 1989.