A Distant Rose Among Thorns

As an abandoned child, whom was displaced since birth, Candice White grows wishing for a special love of her own. Thereafter, an innocent love takes bloom in her heart for a young man on a hill. This meeting turns the key to unlocking an unimaginable fate in Candice's life. Unknowingly, the boy she has met has a link to a legendary family, a lineage of wealth and great power, the crème of the crème, the Ardlay family of Chicago Illinois.
After many years of sworn privacy, their most treasured family secrets are unvaulted in this historical based novel. This story is filled with deep sentiments that will twist endearment to love, disillusion to betrayal, sorrow to rage, with surprising events that tangle the web-like knitted lives of every character belonging to this elite.