She had no idea who she was or where she came from -- only that she had been in an accident somewhere in the remote northwest of India and that Clive Stratton had rescued her. He found a name for her -- Angela -- and took her under his wing.

Back in England, in the peaceful surroundings of Clive's Dorset home, they both hoped that gradually memory and happiness would return to Angela. But what chance of happiness had she, when she found herself living with the glamorous ghost of Clive's first wife?

COMMENTS :
Angela remembers while still in India immediately after they marry and consumate the marriage. Clive turns on her immediately; her name is an anaethma to Clive and his step-mother both of whom seem to be obsessed by his first wife who died 9 years before. She seeks to clear her father's name but upsets the step mother causing a stroke and Clive blames her. She decides to leave him but realizing she is pregnant she returns and the misunderstandings are cleared up...again too convenient and quick after unforgivable actions on the part of the hero. Why are these women so eager to ignore the rotten behaviour and forgive so easily. ( )