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1854 from bristol to barbados emily dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous merchant clan merely a vicar s daughter and a reform minded vicar s daughter at that everyone knows that the family s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin adam one day but when her grandfather dies emily receives an unexpected inheiritance peverills a sugar plantation in barbados a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned when emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to barbados she finds peverills a burnt out shell reduced to ruins in 1816 when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames rumors swirl around the derelict plantation people whisper of ghosts why would her practical minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins why are the neighboring plantation owners the davenants so eager to acquire peverills so eager that they invite emily and her cousins to stay with them indefinitely emily finds herself bewitched by the beauty of the island even as she s drawn into the personalities and politics of forty years before a tangled history of clandestine love heartbreaking betrayal and a bold bid for freedom when family secrets begin to unravel and the harsh truth of history becomes more and more plain emily must challenge everything she thought she knew about her family their legacy and herself

Author : Lauren Willig