The hidden spring

When She Was Good, She Was Very, Very Good. When She Was Bad, She Was Letahal...She was Tabitha Summerfield, an exceedingly pretty young Victorian girl ripe for marriage and womanhood. All who met her were charmed by her sweet demeanor - so becoming in the daughter of an English squire. But what was Tabitha doing down in the wild garden with the old herb woman? What was she learning in the bed of her father's swarthy wheelwright?There was another side to Tabitha, a wanton sensuality and animal hunger that would rise to the surface when she met a man who pleased her.Not for her was the arranged marriage and the era's standard of wifeliness. Tabitha had her own plans, including marriage to a pliable, wealthy husband who could keep up her beloved Cornwall estate, Roskarnon, the only true joy in her stultifying and socially repressed existence.Unfortunately, her brutal father had a very different future in mind for her. And Tabitha would stop at nothing to defy him...