Yours Truly
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It wasn't easy to be a young female painter in 1839...and having a horrid father, only complicated matters for Adelaide Fairfax. When her parents send her to stay with her aunt in London to snag a husband, Adelaide sees it as her chance to escape from her father's manipulations. She could never dream of what she found there...
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