Abbeyford Inheritance

Abbeyford #2

by Margaret Dickinson

Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Now, twenty years later, orphaned and alone she determines to escape from the scandal and disgrace her father sunk to before his violent death, and stows away on a merchant ship back to England -- and her mother's home at Abbeyford Grange. But Lord Royston is too bitter and withdrawn to admit his only grandchild to his sight. He has never forgiven Caroline for running away. And Francis Lynwood, while coming to Adelina's aid in settling her with distant cousins, cannot look at her face without seeing again the woman he once loved, and who broke his heart Meanwhile, Evan Smithson, illegitimate son of Caroline's maid, Sarah and Guy Trent, swears vengeance on all who have wronged him in the past. And that includes his half-brother, Wallis Trent, Lord Lynwood ... and even Adelina.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by many further titles including Plough the Furrow, Sow the Seed and Reap the Harvest, which make up her Lincolnshire Fleethaven Trilogy. She is also the author of Fairfield Hall, Jenny's War and The Clippie Girls. Margaret is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.