Description
When Rachel is left to navigate the shifting loyalties of a household, she finds herself drawn into a tense struggle where affection, duty, and ambition collide. As new arrivals and old rivalries reshape the balance of power, Rachel must confront the ways women are pitted against one another—through reputation, inheritance, and the quiet leverage of social expectation. Set against the pressures of domestic life, the novel explores jealousy and self-determination, asking what it costs to remain principled when survival depends on reading every motive. With Florence Marryat’s sharp, observant storytelling and brisk, character-driven momentum, this is a compelling study of conflict within the home and the moral choices that follow.
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paperback
Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published Jan 1, 2018
328 pages
ISBN: 9781378095232
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First Published
1865
Language
eng
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