Also by
    Judith Lennox

    Reynardine, 1989 
    Till the Day Goes Down, 1991
    The Glittering Strand, 1991
    The Italian Garden, 1993
    The Secret Years, 1994
    The Winter House, 1996
    Some Old Lover’s Ghost, 1997
    Footprints on the Sand, 1998
    Shadow Child, 1999

A Step in the Dark

Married at eighteen to the dashing Jack, beautiful Elizabeth Ravenhart is devastated when her marriage is cut tragically short.

Left penniless, Bess is persuaded by her domineering mother-in-law Cora to return to England, leaving her infant son Frazer behind until she can afford to send for him. But Cora has no intention of parting with the child, and Bess’s desperate attempts to track him down come to a shattering conclusion.

Twenty years later, a knock on Bess’s Edinburgh door sets in motion a chain of events that no one could have foreseen. For Frazer has come to claim his family - and his birthright, the majestic Ravenhart House. None of their lives will ever be the same again…