num_pages: 384
description: The most riveting portrait of a woman's passion since the Brontes' demon-haunted lovers.Melissa - beautiful, obsessive, pledged to a terrifying devotion...Geoffrey - her husband, who raged and fought for her love...Charles - her father, who manacled her life to his own raging needs...Taylor Caldwell enters the stark, brooding manse of nineteenth-century blue bloods to chronicle a compelling tale of treacherous loves.
language: English
title: Melissa
titlecomplete: Melissa
genres: Fiction, Historical, Drama, Romance, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 357
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons