As the families fused, blended in the most tragic and unexpected ways, so Austen and Harriet found themselves trapped in a complex union of passion, lies, and frustrated love. For Maude had a brother, a tense, silent, moody man called Austen, who still couldn't forgive the Martinez family, even though he thought Jack's sister, Harriet, the loveliest and most gentle girl he had ever seen.

But there were others in the feuding families who were to be drawn into the subtle, confusing, and emotional bonding.

The two young lovers, scandalizing respectable Bristol, forced the families to unite and an uneasy truce was formed in. A Scattering Of Daises And The Daffodils Of Newent. There, Jack Martinez, handsome roue and gambler, danced with spoilt, precocious Maude Rudolph and a spark was kindled. See all books authored by Susan Sallis, including Summer Visitors, and By Sun and Candlelight, and more on. The Rudolphs and the Martinez disliked each other intensely - until the Michaelmas Ball of 1927. The quarrel had begun many years before - in 1850 on a West Indian sugar plantation - but although Charles Martinez and Hanover Rudolph had been dead a long time, the resentment and grudges of that old enmity still separated the two most important families in Bristol. By the author of 'Daughters of the Moon'. The quarrel began in 1850 on a West Indian sugar plantation, and the grudges still separated Bristol's two most important families - until the 1927 Michaelmas ball, when handsome rake Jack Martinez danced with spoilt, precocious Maude Rudolph. Description for Sweeter Than Wine Paperback.

Sweeter Than Wine by Susan Sallis