On a sultry September evening a thunderstorm sweeps the streets of Mayfield and brings a child into a household that will raise her. Nine years later Mildred is growing up among village gossip, wealthy neighbours, the young Oliver, the worldly Lawrence Thornton and the lovely Lilian, and Holmes untangles a web of hidden parentage and love.
Classic domestic melodrama from one of America’s most popular nineteenth-century novelists. Download the free EPUB.