Shy, stammering Clara Hamilton is shocked when her father anunces her betrothal to a cousin she barely kws. Her uncle's stepson, Branson Hamilton is handsome, avaricious and rumoured to be unstable. Nineteen-year-old Clara, anxious for her father's approval, agrees to the union unaware of what is at stake. A sinister family secret surfaces and Clara soon discovers that master of Windemere Hall has a dark revenge in store when she enters into his power.
Catherine Lloyd has been writing for twenty years under various pen names. Literary, Mystery, Historical Romance and Contemporary Romance titles are in her catalogue. She was inspired to write Victorian Villains Saga from the gothic romance novels she devoured as a kid. Phyllis A. Whitney, Victoria Holt and Daphne du Maurier combined suspense and romance that influenced generations of readers and writers. The author has two grown children, two stepdaughters, a cat named Harry (who thinks he's a dog) and four grandsons. She lives with her long-suffering spouse in the country where she enjoys having no hobbies and writes full time.