Note: This book has the same content as Chapters 13 to the end of the US edition of This Towering Passion. It was split into 2 volumes by Severn House for UK publication.
The Mistress continues the spellbinding adventures of Lenore and Geoffrey whom we first encountered in The Lovers, the first volume of the This Towering Passion saga. The story begins in 1651 with their first Christmas together, at Oxford, hiding from the enveloping Roundheads. Their happiness is soon broken by Geoffrey's exile in France and Leonore's enforced absence from Oxford as rumours spread about her being "The Angel of Worcester." Frequently disguised, she flees from town to city hoping for the day she can be reunited with her golden daughter and her great love, Geoffrey. Eventually, after Oliver Cromwell's death the country tires of no monarch and 1660 sees the Restoration of Charles II. Leonore is there as he rides in triumph through London, but even with all the wild revelry of Restoration London about her she is still poor, downcast and alone. Could not even the favours of the King himself restore her to Geoffrey?

The Lovers series
by Valerie Sherwood:

This Towering Passion - book 1
published 1977 — 3 editions
They called her "Angel" :
when she rode bareback into the midst of battle to find her lover.
They called her "Mistress Daunt" :
when she lived with Geoffrey in Oxford, though she wore no ring on her finger.
Wherever she traveled men called her Beauty.
Her name was Lenore - and she answered only to "Love."

Her Shining Splendor - book 2
published 1980 — 4 editions
A richly textured romantic saga set in the seventeenth century follows the fortunes of the beautiful Leonore as she flees the amorous attentions of a passionate king, and her daughter, Lorena, as she makes her way to London. By the author of The Mistress. Originally in paperback.

The Mistress - book 3
published 1992 — 1 edition