Victoria Holt

Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background of 19th-century England and Hong Kong, the story of a young Englishwoman in a strange new world unfolds . . .

Bevil is the husband Harriet has always dreamed of and she should be content but in spite of herself, she becomes intensely jealous

Seduced by the power of the strange man called Lynx, Nora soon finds herself very much in love with him. And with his son . . .