The House of Closed Doors
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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.
Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth."
Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.
Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.
Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyed this book!
House of Closed doors was very well written, but was a bit slow at times. Overall, a very enjoyable read.
Freebie reader
The story didn’t capture my interest. I felt I had read it before or it was a story I had read by another author. I skipped to near the middle and I still felt that I was reading a story that was overdone. Evil stepfather, weak and ill mother and Nell a young woman pregnant. I learned Nell was sent to a ‘work house’ not surprising to die or have her baby. Skipped again to find, not surprisingly, that Nell got home to Mother with a plan to expose her Stepfather. Skipped again to find her stepfather was killed. What a shocker. And mother died one week before him. Skipped again to read the build up for another book. I got on this soap opera to find the next book in the Scot De Quincy saga … but perhaps like a TV series the writers got stumped as to how to go on with a TV series … it has been cancelled. I predict Nell tells Jack that he is the father of Sarah. Martin and Nell get married. Three books I don’t have to read. BTW I don’t care about Helena and Armand after reading Nell’s first installment story, because it confirmed that, oh I will be nice and stop. I did enjoy what I have read, but I am no longer tempted to read more ooks by this author.
Adventurous and entertaining
Great read. I love stories about strong independent women!! Very entertaining.