Alas, my parents were killed in the Mutiny, but I was able to escape. You must have had word from the London Missionary Society there has been a misunderstanding. “Deceased.”ĭeceased? Ah! I now understood and rushed to reassure her. “Passed on.” She gave me a hard look, the look one offered a ne’er-do-well. “Miss Rebecca Ravenshaw, why, she’s late.” That’s not right of you to claim, neither.” Her mouth grew firm, a notable contrast with the loose flesh of her cheeks and chin. “Oh!” She drew her breath and steadied herself on the back of a worn upholstered chair. “I am Miss Rebecca Ravenshaw,” I introduced myself. She peered at us from beneath thick pelts of white eyebrow. “May I assist?” An older woman stopped bustling as we entered the Winchester office of Mr. It was with some relief that I finally located the right building just before closing time and opened the creaking door. Excerptĭusk had begun to smother daylight as we walked down the cool street, peering at the numbers above the doorways, one after the other, skirts gathered in hand to keep them from grazing the occasional piles of wet mud and steamy horse muck.
Against her best intentions, Rebecca begins to fall in love with Luke, but she is forced to question his motives-does he love her or does he just want Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, will she suffer a similar fate as the first “Rebecca”?Ī captivating Gothic love story set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless. Her home and her father's investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. That pretender died within months of her arrival the servant fled to London as the young woman was hastily buried at midnight.
Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca's name, but her home and incomes. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her.and highly suspicious. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.
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