Product Description
1835-45
Born to an impoverished clergyman with a strict and joyless attitude to life, Helen Merling still manages to grow up with a loving heart and happy nature. When she meets an actor on her way home from the market she falls in love with him. He seduces her and makes her pregnant. She’s forced to marry him, then her family disowns her. After several years of unhappy marriage, he dies while they’re in Italy and she manages to earn a living for herself and her son. Two years later she meets Charles Carnforth, an older man who falls in love with her, and she marries him out of friendship. When he dies, she goes back to England, where she meets his heir, a young cousin. She falls in love with Daniel. The fact that she’s pregnant to Charles rather complicates things. Can they overcome gossip and prejudice to find happiness? Or will Daniel’s mother spoil their growing love? And will the baby be a boy who disinherits Daniel?
Born to an impoverished clergyman with a strict and joyless attitude to life, Helen Merling still manages to grow up with a loving heart and happy nature. When she meets an actor on her way home from the market she falls in love with him. He seduces her and makes her pregnant. She’s forced to marry him, then her family disowns her. After several years of unhappy marriage, he dies while they’re in Italy and she manages to earn a living for herself and her son. Two years later she meets Charles Carnforth, an older man who falls in love with her, and she marries him out of friendship. When he dies, she goes back to England, where she meets his heir, a young cousin. She falls in love with Daniel. The fact that she’s pregnant to Charles rather complicates things. Can they overcome gossip and prejudice to find happiness? Or will Daniel’s mother spoil their growing love? And will the baby be a boy who disinherits Daniel?
Synopsis
Helen Merling yearns to be loved. When she meets an actor - a common and dishonest profession, in the eyes of her father - Helen succumbs to the young man's charms. Pregnancy and marriage follow, but Robert Perriman is a cheating philanderer. Will Helen suffer a lifetime of drudgery?
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