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Do you think you know what it means to be sacrificed?
Step into 1824, a world where the soot and iron of the Industrial Age are choking out the soft, sun-drenched elegance of the Regency era. Grace Hammond finds herself a "bird readied for the spit". Once the celebrated "Apple-Blossom girl" of the South, Grace has been sold to save her family from the gutter. Her buyer is Edgar, the Marquess of Thornfield, a man whose soul is as cold as the limestone of his vast Yorkshire estate.
To Edgar, Grace is not a wife; she is a gear in his engine and a silent ornament in a house of shadows. At Thornfield Hall, where the North's bitter winds prove that weakness is a flaw in the rock and vultures already circle the battlements, Grace must learn the high price of survival. In a world where a single misplaced word signals ruin, she faces a harrowing choice: will she remain the "sacrificial lamb," or will she learn to command the storm?
Even the most fragile can rise from what the world made them, but Grace must decide if she will be the fire in the hearth or the frost that settles over everything. She will discover that while the oppressed can indeed rise, the cost of that ascent is written in iron and ash.
|FOR THE READERS WHO LOVE TO READ WITH MUSIC|
I've created a playlist on Spotify to go with the book.
• Tittle: Bird for the Spit (official playlist)
• Created by Vermouth