Daughter of a philanderer, gambler and spendthrift, Leonora Shelley is scorned as a poor relation by her mother's family, but she's consumed by a burning desire to be one of them. A stately home, an aristocratic marriage, the dark, mysterious Lukan de Ville - Leonora wants them all.
Domini Highsmith (1942 - 2003) was a Yorkshire-born Jewish writer who lived alone in the shadow of Beverley Minster in Yorkshire. She began her career writing and broadcasting her comic dialect poetry and stories on local radio in Leeds and Bradford. She has also performed on stage and on national television and radio. She wrote six thrillers under the names of Domini Wiles and also used the pseudonym Amy Van Hassen. Her books include two semi-autobiographical novels about an abused child.