Amazon.com description: Product Description: ...A heart that sleeps is only awakenedWhen it is touched by a love that reaches the soul. Fayelyn is young, isolated, and afraid when an old family friend returns to Welkins Gate to look after her interests and take to her for his bride. The much older man is quite handsome and soft-spoken...in the beginning. She soon learns that if a likeness of Satan were to walk the earth, he would appear, and behave, much like Malcolm Kirkpatrick. Their marriage is the product of her husband's insanity. Her sorrow is his vengeance for the pain of watching his best friend take the only woman he ever loved...Fayelyn's mother. Jacob Ryan has just arrived from Boston. A bachelor at thirty-two, he has no intention of taking a wife, especially someone else's, but one look at the beautiful Mrs. Fayelyn Kirkpatrick, and nothing will ever be as it was. One touch, and they are bound by a love that should not be yet neither can abandon...a love that just might cost them their lives when Mr. Kirkpatrick sets into motion a plan of methodical madness.