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Lady Sophia Winterbourne-Stratford-Forrester is a widow twice over, and is dying, according to her doctor. She has a heart ailment, and has between a few weeks and a few months left to live. She is mostly concerned about her precocious 12-year-old daughter, Hannah, who has been without a father for 6 years, and how she can communicate that she may soon be an orphan.
After being abandoned by the father of her child and thrown from her home by her minister father; Olivia “Livie” Mathews finds The Angel’s Wings Orphanage and Foundling Home. There she stumbles upon a dying soldier. He gives her papers and a gem with instructions to only give them to Jason, a dark haired man with a scar.
Madeline has spent her life locked away in a tower. The Marquess of Hayden falls through the tower window on a drunken quest to see if the rumors are true, and finds the lost bastard daughter of a mad Earl. Before Hayden literally falls into her life, Madeline was the victim of abuse and an auction, arranged by Foley and Lady Ashburn, her father’s wife, where greedy men ogled and pawed at her.
Henrietta is a tomboy. She enjoys freedom, climbing trees, and antagonizing her neighbor, Giles Thorpe, an Earl. Henrietta befriends Giles’s mother, Lady Thorpe, but that becomes the downfall of her freedom. Once she is found out, she is sent to live with her aunt to prepare her for the season.
A shy, but dedicated, young woman volunteers to act as an impromptu governess to two unruly six-year-olds on a ducal estate. Seraphina Nicholls recently returned to England from Upper Canada to rejoin her newlywed twin sister, Araminta, now the Marquess of Kingston.
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