A Novel
Bath, England. 1849. In her first brush with the social season, Lady Catherine Fairchild means to secure her three greatest desires: a husband with a grand title, infinite riches, and a standing invitation to society’s elite gatherings.
But when her loving father and brother vanish in a shipwreck off the coast of France, her prospects also disappear. The Fairchilds have but one surviving heir, a beastly man who would rather see Catherine ruined than sanction her ambitions. To escape his wicked intentions, she conspires to claim the family fortune as her own. In wealth, there is power, protection. For Catherine, there are also sweeping consequences.
Soon, she finds herself at the heart of a decades’ old vendetta, immersed in a startling game of deception that will shatter everything she thought she knew about her family, herself, and her own ambitions, transforming the Fairchild legacy forever.