This novel is an imaginative transposition of Wuthering Heights to a Caribbean context, where Heathcliff is reincarnated in the character Rayzé, and Cuba and Guadeloupe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century form the backdrop to the murderous passion which binds him to Cathy. All-consuming love, ancient hatreds, family rivalries, the mysterious forces of religion, a society in transition in the wake of emancipation – retaining all the emotional power of the original, the author offers a vivid picture of a way of life which embodies all the complex social and historical forces which produced it.