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The Desert Crop

With his family farm on the brink of financial ruin, widower Hector Stewart marries Moira Conelly, a woman expected to come into a generous inheritance. But when Moira is cheated out of the inheritance things take a turn for the worse and the family falls apart. Then a senseless act of violence occurs, and through this unexpected tragedy, the Stewarts are given the chance to be a family once again.

Genre
historical fictionromancehistorical romance
Themes
saga
Setting
19th centuryengland
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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