The Hidden Cove - Large Print Author:Catherine M. Rae Emily Adair has lost her mother (to illness), her uncle (to murder), her home and her freedom, having been sold by her uncle's killers to a gang of pickpockets. Emily's short career as a street urchin ends when, weak from hunger and despairing, she bumps into John Lawrence, a handsome businessman who is struck by her strong resemblance to his de... more »ad daughter, Ellie.
He invites her home with him and makes an unusual request: Would she pretend to be Ellie to help his wife, Flora, recover from their daughter's tragic death? Soon after discovering Emily is an impostor, Flora dies from a suspicious drug overdose, and John adopts Emily.
Although puzzled by his frequent nighttime visitors, Emily suppresses her doubts about her new father as she attends art school and falls in love with Hugh Carberry, a Harvard grad. But as she grows older and more beautiful, Emily notices that John is regarding her in a new manner and that his embraces are more than fatherly?and then he's murdered.« less