THE SILKEN CHAIN

‘The Silken Chain’ George Bradley is twenty-three and training as a building site manager. Old school friend, Stephen Robbins, introduces him to his sister Emilia, known as Birdie. She is beautiful and charming and George is strongly attracted. She is also exceptionally spoilt and capricious. The attraction fades fast but Birdie wants George and tricks him into marriage. When she has a serious road accident, George finds himself trapped, not least by love for his daughter, Helen. Over the years he finally manages to carve out a workable existence, helped by his father-in-law and his own determination to succeed in his career. It is when he becomes involved in the personal affairs of one of his staff that he is forced to recognise the gaps in his own life. Before these can be closed, fate plays a surprising and sometimes cruel hand. This is the first book in the trilogy about the Bradley family.