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Jemimah Lawley, a proud English heiress, flees brutal captivity across the windswept plains of Central Asia and journeys 500 miles to her ancestral home, Witchwood Hall. Accompanied solely by a fierce-eyed stranger named Kassim, she survives the harsh trek and reaches her mansion, where the family questions her identity and declares her an impostor. Branded with doubt and facing isolation, Jemimah is taken under the wing of a benevolent benefactress. As new tensions arise, she must decipher the meaning of Kassim’s whispered clue, "Stormswift," to reconcile her past and find peace.
First publish date: 1984
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: O'Donnell, Peter
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