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Sarah Matthews has never known a home outside the cold walls of an orphanage in London’s slums. One day she is whisked away to the manor of Dorothea Blake, a wealthy widow in the prestigious Mayfair district. The elderly woman has no obvious reason for requesting Sarah’s company, but Blake’s motives are shrouded in secrecy. As Sarah matures into a young woman, the truth that Mrs. Blake holds begins to surface, placing both of them at risk of becoming outcasts among London’s elite. A chance encounter with a visitor who inadvertently learns of the secret throws Sarah’s future—her newfound status, her feelings for a charismatic curate, and her freedom—into peril as the mystery of her birth hangs on a knife‑edge.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Christian Fiction/Historical Christian Fiction
Authors: Lawana Blackwell
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