Willow was only seventeen when she married Rowell and left America to become the chatelaine of Rochford Manor. Her happiness seemed complete when she was handed the keys of the Manor, but gradually disillusion set in as Rowell proved to be cruel, unfaithful and greedy. His French grandmother, obsessed with past events, of which Willow is ignorant, wreaks fearful havoc on Willow's life. This is a moving novel of lust, lies, deceit and intrigue; of passions and perversions and, not least, of the powers and the dangers of love.