Mallen Trilogy

Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons, most of them out of wedlock. But to all of them, he passed on his mark – a distinctive flash of white hair running to the left temple known as the Mallen Streak. In 1851, Thomas Mallen, heir of High Banks Hall, found himself a ruined man and was forced amid scandal and disgrace to sell the hall. Then the Radlet brothers of Wilbur Farm arrived, one of whom bore the unmistakable Mallen Streak... Book 1 of series.

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it - she was becoming more and more deaf. Yet living in her silent world, she was protected from the knowledge which might otherwise have destroyed her - the secret of her own origins. Book 2 of series.

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black hair. When Barbara's triplets - the Mallen litter - were born, she hoped that it would herald a new beginning. But it seems that one of her sons bears the Mallen streak - and that the Mallen curse will never die out... Book 3 of the trilogy.