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Emily Gardner a 21-year-old living in Garendale, Massachusetts, faces life changing events when her family's shoe shop goes into debt and the only way to pay for it is through forced servitude.Garendale is one of those towns that still unbeknownst to other neighboring towns masks slavery and forced servitude as employment for the poor people which make up majority of the small town's population. In a quest to save his daughter, Richard Gardner aids in Emily's escape to save his life. As a result, he ends up arrested and sentenced to death. Emily, now orphaned and alone, is shipped off to one of the top houses in the suburban estates where she becomes the personal maid to the master's son Tristan. A forbidden love brews between the two of them. A love that will get them both killed as he's already promised to another. A very dangerous other...
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