On the western shore of Maryland near the mouth of the Potomac, among the islets of the Chesapeake, a tyrannical father forces his daughter Alice to submit to a suitor of his choosing. The consequences run into the next generation, with a disinherited child, a disputed estate, a trance like death and the children of St. Clara’s Isle.
Classic Southworth melodrama, the kind of fiction that made her one of the best-selling writers of nineteenth-century America. Download the free EPUB.