Beloved Sinner

About this book

Escaping with her governess from the wretched clutches of her domineering stepmother, the lovely Sophy Richmond soon found herself deep in the arms of a handsome young Hussar. It was then that she learned the terrible price of illicit love... The affair was fiery but brief. He was called to the front, leaving her to cry over passion that ended as suddenly as it had begun, but scarred her conscience and dashed her hopes of ever meeting a man whom she could call her husband... Then she met Leon de Nerval, a wealthy businessman. They married and it seemed that happiness was hers, until she was threatened by the haunting shadow of the past, the still-remembered flames of a passion that would no let her escape...

About the author

Jessica Stirling

22 November 1935 – 24 September 2014

Hugh Crauford Rae was born on November 22, 1935 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, son of Isobel and Robert Rae. He published his first stories aged 11 in the Robin comic, winning a cricket bat the same year in a children’s writing competition. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as an assistant in the antiquarian department of John Smith's bookshop. At work, he met her future wife, Elizabeth. Published since 1963, he started to wrote suspense novels as Hugh C. Rae, but he also used the pseudonyms of Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar) and James Albany. On 1973, his novel "The Shooting Gallery" was nominee by the Edgar Award. On 1974, he wrote the first few roman…