The Coffin Maker's Daughters: Blind Bargain

The Coffin Maker's Daughters were all named after flowers: Lily, Violet, Daisy, May Rose and Marigold. This is Lily's story.
When Lily Spencer, naive and vulnerable, marries Charles Nightingale they strike a Blind Bargain for neither knows much about the other. but Lily discovers a dark secret that Charles has kept hidden.
Blind Bargain tells of her struggle to rise above the pain of delusion and cope with a life devoid of physical love and of how she pours her passion into her art to become an accomplished portrait painter.
Set in late Victorian England, Blind Bargain takes its characters from village life on the Downs to the society of London. It is a story of intrigue, misunderstandings, love, hate and revenge.