Joe Usseglio
Published: 2017-01-16
Total Pages: 598
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Born to a powerful Duke and a beautiful Duchess, Clara is left without parents when her mother abruptly leaves shortly after Clara's birth and her father disappears on a hunting trip two years later. The new Duke, a very distant relative, has no time for a leftover child. He removes her to the oldest part of the castle where she'll be no reminder of her illustrious father. Accustomed for fifteen years to the new Duke's neglect, she is quite surprised when he tells her that she is to marry a Lord Evan Macwary, eleventh Baron of Lochenny, and will be leaving to meet her husband-to-be immediately after her farewell party. Lochenny is so remote that only one person in the Castle, an elderly servant, has ever seen the place. When he hears that Clara is to be sent off to Lochenny to wed Baron Macwary, he comes secretly to her room at night with two pieces of information:1) Lochenny Castle is an abandoned ruin, and 2) the Macwary line died out nearly a century ago...The new Duke, as her guardian, has absolute authority over Clara, so her options are few. She can obey and be taken away in two days to a very uncertain fate, or she can be gone when her 'escorts' come to fetch her at dawn of the second day. To get free will be easy enough. To stay free will mean a new country, a new name, and a new life.