Corinna's Cause/Large Print

by Joanna Makepeace

FORCED TO WED!Corinna Webster had no desire to marry the man she'd been promised to since childhood. Sir Lionel Summers would not sway her affections to his favor -- not when she'd pledged her love to Oliver Hunt. But when family secrets came forth, forbidding a match with Oliver, Corinna allowed herself to become Lionel's wife. Little did she expect to fall so deeply in love with her new husband, or witness his bravery--all in the attempt to make her happy and ease her conscience. And it almost took a fatal turn for Lionel to see that he would forever be Corinna's cause.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published December 3, 1993

About the author

Also writes under the pseudonyms Margaret Abbey and Elizabeth York.

Joanna was born in a Leicester of working class parents who were keenly intelligent and supportive and loving throughout her childhood. Unfortunately, she was born with a dislocation of the hip joint, which meant she spent a great deal of early childhood in and out of hospitals. However, they did have a hospital school and she learned to read early, so that she was devouring Dickens, Dumas, and Sabatini at seven and attempting to scribble stories (novels even) at about 11 years old.