Dark Flame.

by Mary Williams

1813: the destiny of a family is set by the sale of a wilful, green-eyed girl to the highest bidder.
Her unhappy fate heralds a story more turbulent than she could ever have imagined, as generation after generation o her proud family struggles with the secrets of its dark mysterious past. Scattered from the wilds of Cornwall to the high life of London, Boston and Paris, each pursues a separate dream, while, beneath the drama and the intrigue, the bold, unquenchable Pencorrin family spirit burns ceaselessly on.
Until, after the turmoil of the Great War, a patient daughter returns at last to take up her Cornish heritage...

268 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Mary Williams was born in Leicestershire and attended Leicester College of Art where she trained as an illustrator. During a varied and colourful life she wrote and illustrated children’s programmes for BBC Wales and worked as a newspaper columnist. She has had many occult novels published as well as her bestselling Cornish romances which she wrote under the pseudonym Marianne Harvey.