Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these...
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Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be?
""Contents""; ""Chapter I. THE NEW-COMERS.""; ""Chapter II. BREAKING THE ICE.""; ""Chapter III. DWELLERS IN THE WILDERNESS.""; ""Chapter IV. A SISTER'S SECRET.""; ""Chapter V. A NAVAL CONQUEST.""; ""Chapter VI. AN OLD STORY.""; ""Chapter VII. VENIT TANDEM FELICITAS.""; ""Chapter VIII. SHADOWS BEFORE.""; ""Chapter IX. A FAMILY PLOT.""; ""Chapter X. WOMEN OF THE FUTURE.""; ""Chapter XI. A BLOT FROM THE BLUE.""; ""Chapter XII. FRIENDS IN NEED.""; ""Chapter XIII. IN STRANGE WATERS.""; ""Chapter XIV. EASTWARD HO!""; ""Chapter XV. STILL AMONG SHOALS.""; ""Chapter XVI. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR.""