An Illicit Romance
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Last published Fri, Sep 13, 2013
Rose Meyer is a servant. Taken from her mother to work in Cheshire, England as a maid at the prestigious Harrington Manor. Daniel Harrington is from one of the richest families in England and is,unwillingly, due to be engaged. She’s black. He’s white.In a time where such a romance would be condemned by all what happens when two different people from two different world’s meet…and fall in love?
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