Carmerella’s Reviews > The Heiress > Status Update

I’d been an orphan, in and out of the foster system since birth. A multimillionaire plucking me out of poverty, installing me in her palatial home, making me heir to her fortune? - Camden

And there was this darkness that seemed to cling to me, a past that people only ever spoke about in whispers. A suspicion, even inside my own heart, that I had been placed in the wrong life, living out a role written for someone else. - Ruby McTavish

“It’s stupid, but it’s like I keep forgetting that I’m going back there with someone,” he says, and then he squeezes my hand. “With you. Whenever I think about being back there, I picture it like it was before. All of them as this … united front. And me. Alone.” He lifts our joined hands, kissing my knuckles. “But now, I’m not alone.” “Never will be again,” I tell him, meaning it. Cam/Jules

My observation: every family have their own deep dark secrets and a murky past. The McTavishes are no different, except they are wealthier than most families.

The Blue Ridge Mountains surrounding the McTavish mansion are indeed stunning, but they are also full of hidden dangers—steep cliffs, boggy areas, and, of course, wild animals.

Everything about my estrangement from my family makes perfect sense to Jules because I’ve made it make perfect sense. I’ve told her the truth, or at least the most basic version of it, and she’s accepted it. - Cam