The Bitter Winds of Love

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Love's Surprises When young attractive Lydia Brant was widowed, she agreed to become companion to the willful, golden-haired Ann Taverel. Eighteen-year-old Ann was determined to travel to Cairo, to visit the mother who had deserted her eleven years before. So Lydia and Ann entered a new, and shocking, society. They found that while Ann's invalid mother spent her hours alone in a darkened room, her mother's young husband, Gerald, entertained himself with wild parties, drink and mistresses. Lydia, outraged, vowed to remove Ann from his influence. But Lydia had only begun to know Gerald. How could she have guessed that the very man she despised would touch her own lonely life--and draw her into a dangerous, startling, dream of love ... .

subjects: 1930s,  Contemporary Fiction,  Fiction in English,  Love Triangle,  Romance Fiction,  Fiction, general

People: Lydia Brant,  Ann Taverel,  Gerald

Places: Cairo (Egypt)