Upon the Hill
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Amelia's world is turned upside down when Lord Northcott decides she is to be his wife. All she wants is to marry the shepherd boy and live a simplistic life, but a vassal can't say no to the Lord. She's thrown into a world she doesn't understand, while the townsfolk turn on her for her sudden promotion from butcher's daughter to Lady. While struggling to find her way, memories of the late Lady Northcott surface, her Nanny Dottie, who helped raise her after her own daughter died.
Yet, she doesn't understand why Lord Northcott would leave his prosperous land in the colonies to return for her.
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