Secrets can mask any things!
The Letter from Briarton Park (The Houses of Yorkshire #1) by Sarah E. Ladd
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Set in Regency England as industrialisation is overtaking the landscape.
A young school teacher, Cassandra Hale, is given information about her past and handed a letter by “the woman who’d been like a mother to her”, her mentor and headmistress, Mrs Jane Denton, as she was dying. A deathbed confession if you will. Cassandra’s love for her mentor vies with a sense of betrayal. The letter is an invitation to Briarton Park in North Yorkshire from one Robert Clark where she will be given more information about her family.
Cassandra had been placed in care at the Denton School for Young Ladies at the age of five. Now nineteen years later she sets out to Briarton Park, to find out more about her unknown past. That search leads her to Anston Village during the troubled times when the instalment of machinery in mills threatens workers employment. Before her quest is finally put to rest, Cassandra’s search will bring not only knowledge of who her parents were, but betrayal and death, and eventually to lead to friendship and love, and a place of belonging. Along the way two men catch her attention, or let’s just say Cassandra catches theirs. The obliging vicar Mr North and mill owner James Warrington.
A pleasing and enjoyable Regency romance with an hint of gothic overtones.
A Thomas Nelson ARC via NetGalley
Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change
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