The Warmsleys of Pedlars Down
Since girlhood, Rachel Warmsley has devoted her life to caring for her widowed father and younger brothers, keeping house for them at Pedlars Down, the brown and white timber-framed manor house that has been home to the Warmsleys for generations. When handsome Hugh Armstrong comes courting, Rachel falls in love for the first time. But on the night of the summer ball at his elegant riverside mansion, her happiness is cruelly shattered when she wit...