Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the Last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe

The moors are not kind to those who love, and the Waynes and Ratcliffes have forgotten how to do anything else. When Anthony Wayne dies beneath suspicious circumstances, his daughter Nell arrives at the family estate to find her brother Shameless Wayne drunk and oblivious, the death bell tolling against a raging storm, and a knife gripped in her own hand. She knows who killed her father. She has always known. Now she must decide if revenge will heal her family or destroy what remains of it. This is a story of the last great feud: not just between two families, but between love and honor, between the past we inherit and the future we must build. The prose burns with gothic intensity, the kind of tragic romance that only the 19th century could produce, where passion and vengeance become indistinguishable. For readers who crave sweeping family dramas where every kiss carries the weight of generations.