Diane Mitchell
ASIN: B00AO5R4KA
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 458
A sequel to Tainted Legacy, the novel opens in Bristol in 1953 at the funeral of Victoria, founder of the Harwood Company, the reading of her Will destined to shock and divide her family. Leaving the business to her daughter Alice and her unacknowledged son Albert, she gives the deciding shares to Cathleen, her dead husband's illegimitate daughter, her brother Spencer and her sister Emily receiving virtually nothing despite their desperate poverty.But rich and poor members of her sprawling family are to be drawn together over the next few years as they become embroiled in illicit love, fiery destruction and violent deaths while through it all, new and unlikely friendships are forged.