A Falcon for a Witch by Catherine Darby - Paperback 1975 VINTAGE Historical Romance

When the young and breathtakingly beautiful Margred left her home in Wales and came to Kingsmead, she was scarcely prepared for the fate that awaited her.  She was to be a pawn in the ruthless game of lust and greed played by the magnificent Falcon family dynasty, a dynasty founded on corruption, built through treachery and deception, and hungry for spoils and conquest; a dynasty spanning over three hundred years and ten generations, from the lusty days of Henry VIII to the staid reign of Queen Victoria; a dynasty cloaked in the brilliant manners and glorious pageantry of the aristocracy beneath which burned all the dark passions and instincts of a beast of prey.

But Margred had a secret of her own that made her more than a match for the proud and arrogant Falcons; a secret that would entangle them in a web of lust, betrayal and vengeance for the next ten generations; a secret that would make her the next mistress of Kingsmead.