Willowwood
Lillian de Wentworth was the perfect Victorian heroine, with her pale white skin, her striking copper hair, and her frail body, still suffering the effects of a long-ago accident.  --  To the world, she seemed a helpless invalid, a beautiful crushed flower. But to Jack Ellershaw, a gardener aspiring to become a professional cricket player and a Gentleman, she was the woman he wanted by his side. They could be equals, if not in social status, then in love.

 But their love was touched by scandal, and Lilian was banished to her aunt's house in London, where she became the model for an artist whose savage sensuality cloaked a perverse desire to possess Lilian completely.

 Only Jack would be able to free Lilian from that lethal obsession. If he could reach her in time....