Description

Gwaltney Harris has fought all his life to get prosperity but nonetheless can't buy the respectability he wishes. Eager, he weds the shrewish but well-bred Cordelia Ashton, who has hidden a comfortable character beneath a spinsterish exterior. Gwaltney, nevertheless, has secrets of their own, and he doesn’t dare develop too near to Cordelia. Regardless of this, they start to fall in love, but can their relationship survive a mysterious attacker who'll stop at nothing to destroy Gwaltney?