Circle of gold

A sweeping saga of one woman's passion and perseverance stretches from the industrious, sexually repressed world of the Kentucky Shakers to the sophisticated Victorian England ruling class. A courageous young woman's quest for love carries her from frontier Kentucky to Britain's aristocratic estates. Raised in a Kentucky log cabin, Rebecca Blake finds her happiness shattered when her mother dies and Rebecca is sent to live with an austere Shaker family. She meets Ramsey Sherborne, a British lord studying Shaker manufacturing methods, and soon becomes Lady Sherborne. But when Ramsey is killed, Rebecca returns to her roots in this vivid and stirring tale.