Previously published as A Secret Rose

A love that never dies . . .

1886.
Alys Trelawney arrives at Pencradoc in Cornwall where she meets the alluring Jago Pencradoc.

Little does she know that their encounter will have repercussions that will ripple through the generations . . .

Present day. Tasked with her first big job for the London art dealers she works for, Merryn Burton arrives at beautiful Pencradoc, an eighteenth-century stately home nestled on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

Introduced to the Pencradoc brothers, the inheritors of the estate, Merryn feels inexplicably drawn to one of them, tall and dark-haired Kit.

It soon becomes clear that the house has a secret only Merryn can uncover, and it has something to do with the portrait of a long-forgotten duchess in a hidden room . . .