title: The Shrouded Walls
author: Howatch, Susan
description: When Marianne Fleury, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Englishman, and Axel Brandson, who needed a wife to inherit the family fortune left to him by his father, were married, few doubted it was a marriage of convenience.  Trapped in the isolated old house at Haraldsdyke, the Brandson family estate, Marianne falls in love with her new husband.  Rumors begin to fly -- Axel Brandson is now accused of murdering his father.
  
  Suspense, entrapment, love, and death mingle in the high-ceilinged rooms of an eighteenth-century English manor.
  
  The Shrouded Walls by Susan Howatch, the author of Penmarric, is a novel in the grand tradition of Daphne DuMaurier and Dorothy Eden.