Katie is yet another fantastic book by Lilly Adam. Torn from her happy home by the death of her father, Katie is forced into a marriage not of her choosing as a means of survival. She learns many secrets of her past, but she has no way to discover more as she moves in with her husband and his two daughters who are determined to make her life miserable. Slowly she learns that things are not what she was lead to believe when she agreed to get married. One new event after another leaves her desperate to survive and to keep her new born son safe. She is fortunate to have new friends help her, and eventually, she is able to discover the secrets of her past. Like all Lilly’s stories, this one will hold you in its grip, and you will not want to put it down. – Celia Martin
When the narcissistic, Hector Chambers, takes drastic action in deterring his daughter from marrying, Winston Moore, whom he considers to be beneath his family’s social class, it marks the beginning of a barrage of enduring and tragic repercussions.
Twenty-three years later, in eighteen-sixty and fourteen months after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, Imogen Moore finds herself overburdened with responsibilities and financial difficulties. Nothing could have prepared Katie Moore for her mother’s shocking and devastating revelation, which leaves her with no alternative but to accept a hastily arranged marriage.
It soon becomes apparent that Soho’s notorious, John Ellis, is not the husband she’d been expecting and his two teenage daughters, whom she’d hoped to nurture and take into her confidence, make it obvious from the first day of her marriage that they have no intention of allowing Katie into their hearts or making her feel that she has any authority in their father’s house.
Left feeling alone and abandoned, Katie is suddenly aware that she knows very little about the truth of her lineage.
Aspects of John Ellis’s past soon come to light and Katie is approached by an impoverished man from the East End, claiming that his sister’s life is now in great danger because the child she is about to deliver belongs to John Ellis. The revelation leaves Katie feeling beholden to dealing with the repercussions of her husband’s shady past.
With her life becoming more of a struggle with every passing day, an unexpected and catastrophic turn of events shakes the lives of everyone in the Ellis household.
Even in the darkest of circumstances, when infinite love and abiding family ties are constantly tested, the bonds which tie remain enduring.
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