The German originals face the translations. Translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

    — Before her stood the groom, Edward Liscombe, master of Liscombe Manor, his violent, wastrel past a scandal through the countryside, his sudden marriage an incredible surprise. — He was strong, handsome, yet as she looked up at him, Yasmin felt a sudden shiver, as cold and piercing as the wind off the moors. Already she had seen in his dark gaze spectres of a terrible past and the pain of an injury of which Edward refused to speak. But now she saw something else. Unmistakable in her loved one's eyes was hatred, black and unrelenting hatred -- and he was staring straight at her!