A late steamer on the St. Johns River brings a stranger to the Brock House at Enterprise, Florida, and with him begins a story that reaches back to Crompton House in the North. There old Colonel Crompton, eccentric and imperious, took in Amy, a girl whose birth remains a mystery, and the secrets of the family slowly come to light through servants, letters and visitors.
Domestic romance from one of the most widely read American novelists of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.