Mistress Penwick

“In God’s name, good nurse, take my baby to England in all haste.” The order sends fifteen-year-old Katherine Penwick from a Quebec convent toward a guardian she has already decided to hate—on the strength of his Scottish skirts.

In snowbound Quebec, Katherine has known the convent walls and the care of Janet Wadham since she was six. Now a dawn departure will carry her across the sea to Lord Cedric, a stranger who will control her estates—and, by her father’s command, guide her choice of a husband. Katherine dreams of the wide world beyond the convent, but Janet’s portrait of a red-faced, hot-tempered Scot is enough to turn anticipation into dread. Can a girl raised among quiet cells keep her own spirit in a grand house ruled by a formidable guardian?

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