Fifteen-year-old Phylice Berknowles, last of her line, lives in a rook-haunted Irish manor beneath the portrait of her ancestor Sir Nicholas. The story of her guardianship and growing love carries her across the Atlantic to Charleston, South Carolina, where old family ties and Southern society shape what follows.
A romance by the author of The Blue Lagoon; some Charleston characters voice racial attitudes typical of the period. Download the free EPUB.