Lucifer and the Angel

Lost in a woodland daydream, cherubic eighteen-year-old Anita Lavenham is awoken from a reverie inspired by a sermon about the Devil by the sonorous voice of a handsome gentleman asking her to open the gate she’s leaning on – a gentleman whose imperious, yet raffish air leads her to think that he is Lucifer personified!
Anita and her two sisters are impoverished after the loss of their father and their Mama’s illness – and soon she is obliged

No, Heaven would be filled with animals, for it would not be Heaven without them

She was the most spectacular of the three sisters and her pink and white skin, her golden hair with red lights, and her hyacinth-blue eyes had proclaimed her a beauty before she had left the schoolroom.