Series: Somerville
$4.99
Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
A lost treasure... A bankrupt inheritance... A young woman alone at the mercy of powerful men... Rebecca Miller's idyllic childhood ends in abrupt tragedy. Suddenly cast from a world where she, as a girl, is given every opportunity a boy gets, she has to battle against those whose ideas are fundamentally opposed to everything she has believed. The Somerville inheritance - unforeseen, unwanted - is a poisoned chalice, thrusting her into betrothal with a wealthy rake three times her age, whose intentions towards her are made plain from the outset. To live the life she wants, Rebecca must reach into unknown depths of courage and resource, discovering allies in unlikely places as she determines to seize back control of her fate.