The Clouded Hills aka Verity ; Flint and Roses ; The Sleeping Sword

Barforth

by Brenda Jagger

VERITY BARFORTH WAS AN UNTOUCHED GIRL OF 17 WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED. SHE WAS A WOMAN OF 26 WHEN SHE FELL IN LOVE.

Verity knew well why her handsome, womanizing cousin Joel Barforth wed her. She was heiress to a great Yorkshire weaving mill, and her husband lusted for wealth as keenly as he lusted for her.

In return, Joel gave her all a nineteenth-century wife could expect - a fine home, servants, children, even a growing knowledge of sensual pleasure. Then Verity met a man as different from Joel as day from night - Crispin Aycliffe, bitter foe of all that her husband represented - and in his arms she surrendered to the overwhelming, terrifying force of love.

1132 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

Brenda Jagger was born on 1936 in Yorkshire, England, UK, which was the setting for many of her books including her famous ‘Barforth’ family saga. The recurring central themes of her work are marriage, womanhood, class, identity, and money in the Victorian Era. Her work has been praised for its compelling plots and moving storylines as well as its exacting emotional descriptions. Her later novel A Song Twice Over won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1986.

Married, she had three daughters. Worked in Paris and as a probation officer in the north of England. She passed away in 1986.