When American heiress Clarissa Wentworth journeys to England to meet her unknown relatives she expects to find the beautiful, gracious estate her late father had described. Instead she is catapulted into a decaying mansion populated with an unpleasant assortment of relatives, each with their own agenda for her and her fortune. Worst of all is her grandfather, who demands she turn complete control of the fortune left to her by her father and then marry her dissolute cousin Basil in order to preserve the title, the estate and the family name.
As her liberties are restricted and her grandfather becomes more and more importunate there are two bright spots in Clarissa’s growing despair - a great champion of a horse called Saracen and a handsome, enigmatic neighbor named Robert Stanhope. The more Clarissa is drawn into her relatives’ scheming the more both man and horse come to mean to her until at last she is forced into a choice destined to alter her life forever.
Genre: Historical
As her liberties are restricted and her grandfather becomes more and more importunate there are two bright spots in Clarissa’s growing despair - a great champion of a horse called Saracen and a handsome, enigmatic neighbor named Robert Stanhope. The more Clarissa is drawn into her relatives’ scheming the more both man and horse come to mean to her until at last she is forced into a choice destined to alter her life forever.
Genre: Historical
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