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The Favored Child

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The second in the Wideacre Trilogy, this novel is set in 18th-century Sussex. In the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry, only one can inherit the estate.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 629 pages

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