The household at Millbank waits for Roger to come home, and a death in the family soon gathers servants, relatives and neighbours around the great house. Holmes unfolds an old secret behind it all, a marriage arranged so that a poor girl’s father might keep his home, and the long consequences of that bargain for everyone who lives under Millbank’s roof.
Domestic melodrama from one of the best-selling American novelists of the nineteenth century, for lovers of old-fashioned family sagas. Download the free EPUB.