Possession — Mardi Ballou

When love binds two souls together, what can tear them apart?

Anna Clarke lives in the moors of Northern England. Some may find the landscape bleak, but Anna knows the truth -- magic and beauty flow among the heather on the softly rolling hills. She weaves by night and day, aching to capture an echo of the land's magic and trying desperately to escape, even for a short while, the brutality she endures at her father's hands.

Nicholas Durand comes to the moorlands with dreams of writing a book, but his hopes are dashed by the hostile treatment he receives from the villagers. He is a stranger, and in this strange and insular land, that is a sin above all others. Only one thing keeps him from returning to London -- Anna, the beautiful woman who has woven a spell around his heart.

Though their love is forbidden, Anna and Nicholas determine that no one and nothing -- on Earth or in the heavens -- will keep them apart. Too bad Fate and Anna's father have other plans in mind…

A dark, uncanny tale set at the end of the nineteenth century.