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IN EVERY HEART, THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HOPE . . .

To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession - to be used, misused or discarded like anything else at Newton Law, his grand estate on Northumberland's wild moors: And since he has her adored six-month-old son in his hands, it seems there is nothing that Amy can do except return to his power and suffer the consequences for trying to leave him.

The gamekeeper they call Duffy thinks he has never seen anything quite so brave as Amy Blenkinsopp when she faces up to her husband — and is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement.

With the help of Sir Robert's servants and the increasingly devoted Duffy, she makes the estate not only happier but richer as well. And nearly nine months later, when she gives birth to twin babies, it seems that her story will nave a happy ending.

But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, on her children, and on the man who has come to love her.

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