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Esotismo, avventura e terrore si amalgamano insieme a comporre un'avventura senza tempo. Pubblicato con lo pseudonimo Victoria Holt - quello normalmente usato da E. A. Hibbert per i romanzi a sfondo gotico - "Prigioniera del cuore" è un’entusiasmante miscela di tutti gli elementi più misteriosi, esotici e bizzarri che hanno decretato la fortuna letteraria del genere. La bella Rosetta Cranleigh, figlia di due egittologi, si imbarca per un viaggio avventuroso a fianco di un giovane archeologo, Lucas Lorimer, e del fuggitivo Simon Perrivale, accusato ingiustamente di omicidio.

Favel Farrington meets Roc Pendorric on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Capri, where she was raised and lives with her father. Roc sweeps her off her feet, taking her from her home by an emerald sea to the ancient family home of the Pendorrics, in Cornwall. His sister and her family await them with open arms, welcoming young Favel. She is the much anticipated Bride of Pendorric, a name that amuses and flatters her. The castle is beautiful in its way, but the atmosphere is foreboding. Roc's twin nieces begin watching her carefully; even the stones in the courtyard seem to have eyes.

Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned. But what about its master—Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daugher proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil—even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into her life.

Lenore vokser op i familien Sallongers silkehus; et imperium der bygger på silke og silkefabrikation i Viktoriatidens England. Hendes bedstemor er højt værdsat som en fremragende kjoledesigner, og hun og Lenora bliver accepteret næsten som medlemmer af familien. Lenores liv centrerer omkring huset jævnaldrene unge: Arrogante og flirtende Charles, alvorlige, men venlige Philip, selvviske Julia, og den blide, handicappede Cassie.