Alayna R. reviewed on 1/13/2007 + 24 more book reviews

growing up on the thriving plantation called the meadows, lillian booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams... lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunchine and promises, as thrilling as the fairly tales mama spins for her and her little sister, eugenia. no one, not even her cold, stern papa and her bible-spouting sister emily, can crust her spirits- untill the day emily reveals the shattering secret of lillians birth, a secret mama sadly cannot deny. still lillian refuses to belive emil'ys hateful claim that she is evil, a curse... even when sweet, gently eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and mama retreats further into her fatansies. but when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, lillian comes to believe emily's grim words. meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. lillian's heareth is torn anew when, in a drunken haze, papa subjects her to the most brutal degraation. then papa loses the meadowns in a card game, and lillian is faced with a new terrifying prospect. arrogant, handsome playbow bill cutler will return the plantation- if lillian will marry him! now lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold ne beginning as the mistress of a hotel called cutler's cove...

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