Dr. Victor Bellamy is a young and wealthy country doctor practicing in the late 1840s southern England. When he discovers a beautiful woman madly flogging herself in the woods near his family estate of Ravenswood Hall, his life suddenly changes. He becomes her physician but also her lover. She is everything he desires; yet, she suffers from a peculiar and mysterious mental illness for which he must find a cure. Rife with romance and raw emotion, this is a tome for those who love love stories, Victoriana, and British history. J.J. Scott is the pen name of an author who lives and works in Connecticut. This is her second novel.