The Green Bay Tree

The Green Bay Tree

Freddie Clements grew up on a prosperous Yorkshire estate to a cruel father who cared little for his wife and the family business and even less for his daughter, more so because she was not the son he longed for. <br /><br />She has the love of a cloying mother but when she meets her impoverished neighbour, Harry Avery at The Hall, Freddie realises she has much love within herself to give and her future is now predetermined. But a tragedy at The Hall changes her hopes and dreams and she marries Bart Wallace, a wealthy American who is besotted by her dark well of almost psychic understanding of life, and for the first time she feels safe and loved.<br /><br />With her own business of a marriage bureau growing, Freddie finds fulfilment in her marriage and success. But when she is unwittingly thrown together with Bart’s friend, the dark and obsessive Warren, she faces disastrous and deadly consequences that changes her life forever and she vows to protect her beloved Bart from ever finding out her secret.<br /><br />An enthralling story of betrayal, of desires and one man obsession of another man’s wife.