by Geraldine Hillis
Housemaid Catherine is in trouble with her employer, Lord Anthony, for 'borrowing' a volume of poems from his Library. When a bracelet later goes missing, suspicion falls upon Catherine, and she must leave her employment without a character reference. By the time her innocence is proven and the wrongdoers punished, she is many miles away, and all Lord Anthony has is the locket she left behind. He recognises the Westringham crest on the locket and investigates further, learning more of Catherine's background from the orphanage. Catherine meanwhile is experiencing demeaning work in a public house, and her chance encounter with a wealthy man triggers memories from her childhood. Drugged, bound and abducted, she is taken from the public house to Westringham Manor where she learns not only her true identity, but the grave danger she is in. There is only one person who can save her, and he is betrothed to another ...
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