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Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Stella Sedgwick is a lost cause. While 1860s England offers little opportunity beyond marriage for a sharp-tongued, dark-skinned housekeeper's daughter, Stella dreams of a writing career and independence. When her late mother's former employer-the wealthy Thomas Fitzroy-summons Stella to London, he bequeaths her one of the family's great estates on his deathbed. But such an inheritance will precipitate a legal battle, one that would...