The Hidden Hand

A feisty young orphan girl finds herself the heiress of a Virginia plantation in this nineteenth-century novel of high drama and perilous adventure.
Though she is an orphan, Capitola Black is nobody's fool. To survive on the streets of New York, she works by disguising herself as a newsboy. But when the wealthy Major Warfield adopts her, she finds herself in a new world of adventure and danger at his Virginia plantation, Hurricane Hall. Named the sole heiress of Warfield's fortune, Capitola is a young woman of great expectations—as long as she can survive the schemes of Warfield's jealous family!