Audrey Howard — A Place Called Hope

Hodder & Stoughton 2001 Paperback, 569pp. To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession to be misused and discarded. Amy is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement. With the help of the servants and a new companion, she makes the estate not only happier but richer as well. But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, her children, and the man who has come to love her. (ISBN: 9780340769294). Good.