The dust jacket is missing. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! - Safe and Secure! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: When Sylvia Carey came to the Grays' ramshackle homestead with a past to forget, her warmhearted generosity meant new lives for them all. The run-down farm and the old house became, under her imaginative direction, well-managed, thriving establishments. Only Austin Gray, the brilliant yet bitter son, whose penchant for the dissolute ways of Wallacetown so scandalized the village, refused her impulsive friendship- until that night when Sylvia, badly injured and faint with shock, sketched for Austin, with a bitterness matching his own, the sordidness of her own past. For both, that terrible, storm- filled night was an end- and a beginning. For Sylvia, it presaged the kindling of a tender, overwhelming passion she had never thought possible. For Austin, it meant spiritual fulfillment, broadened horizons and an all pervading love of a type he had not known before. But the difficulties were enormous, each was quick-tempered and proud, and the sins of both came back to haunt them. Their struggles, their temptations, their triumphs- how they twice lost and found each other- make a powerful story which you will not soon forget. Of a different stamp was David Noble, neighbor of the Grays and the son of impoverished newcomers to Hamstead. From the very beginning, David was he wanted money, and above all he wanted to become a doctor, and subordinated to both these hopes was the desire to possess the lovely Jacqueline, half-French granddaughter of a wealthy Hamsteader. Forcibly separated from her by the irate grandfather, it was not until David had attained both his prior ambitions that he found Jacqueline once more, in France. No longer was she the fragile, shy, tender child whom he had worshiped so long, but an exquisite, sophisticated, worldly-wise woman, tremendously weary of her mode of living. Again David's luck held; and the romance flowered anew, until Jacqueline's own spirit and David's insane desire for total possession...