Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1414375557
Type: Fiction
Pages: 400
Copyright: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781414375557
Set in 1838, seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian. Julia quickly discovers her present is deeply entangled with her mother’s mysterious past. Before she knows what’s happening, she's caught in a deadly game between two of the country’s most powerful men. With no laws to protect her, she must unravel the secrets on her own.
Excerpt
LATER, when I allowed myself to confront the memories, to dwell on the particulars, I realized my arrival at Am Meer marked the beginning.
Not the mysterious letters that drained the life from Mama.
Not her suicide.
And not the two men arriving at dusk, stomping mud from their boots in the foyer, bearing ill tidings.
Nay—not even the disconcerting news that I had a guardian, one who intended to keep me sequestered. For those happenings were not my story. I was sinless there.
They were the end result of events set in motion long before I arrived at the cottage. I could no more have stopped their unfolding than I could have prevented my own birth.
Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a
