Her Happy Ever After by Lucy Evanson

Author:Lucy Evanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, historical western romance, cowboy romance, victorian romance, 19th century romance
Publisher: Belleport Publishing

When Lord Wellstone plucked her from among all the other orphans at Harks House, he changed her life. Penny had heard the dire tales of the girls who had spent their whole lives under the roof at Harks, only to come of age and be turned out to the street. It was often a brutally short, brutally unpleasant life after that, but what could be expected of girls who had nobody to turn to in this world? Even now, years later and surrounded by the warm luxury of Whitelake Manor, Penny shivered as she remembered the stories of the girls she had known and the miserable deaths they had.

If an orphan girl was lucky, she found work in a cotton mill; in that regard, life hardly changed from what she knew at Harks House. A girl was given a cot, a cloak and a bowl of soup every day for lunch. She gave back ten hours on a normal day; an abnormal day also asked for a finger or two, but one learned quickly to respect the machinery.

Unlucky girls found no such work. They became those half-people who existed, rather than lived, frequenting only those places that polite society refused to recognize, selling only what they’d arrived in this world with, existing only in body while their souls crumbled inside.

Lord Wellstone diverted her from that road. He hadn’t just changed Polly’s life; he had saved it. He wasn’t just her employer. He wasn’t merely a man who she expected would make both a kind parent and faithful husband someday. He was a hero.

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