Legacy of Shame Author:Nora Kay When Kate McPherson is only ten years old, she loses both her mother and her home. The man she knew as "Uncle Edwin" has no place in his heart or his life for his dead mistress's little girl. And Kate has instead to become the ward of her aunt Sarah, her father's sister -- a stern woman who is quick to tell Kate the... more » full story of her mother's shame.
Edwin Hamilton-Harvey was not the first man Kate's mother loved without benefit of marriage. When Kate's father came back from World War I and married her mother, he already had a wife, Ruth McPherson. So begins the strange relationship between the orphaned girl with no real family and two women who ought to hate her. For both Sarah and Ruth McPherson, Kate becomes a cherished surrogate daughter. It seems she has found a family at last. But then tragedy strikes -- and Kate falls in love. And the man she cares for turns out to be Roddy Hamilton-Harvey, the son of the man who once rejected the orphaned girl.« less