Legacy of Shame

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

life for his dead mistress''s little girl.

Kate becomes the ward of her aunt Sarah, her father''s sister - a stern woman

who tells Kate the full story of her mother''s shame. Edwin Hamilton-Harvey was

not the first man Kate''s mother loved without benefit of marriage. When he came

back from World War I and married her mother, Edwin already had a wife, Ruth.

So begins a strange relationship between the orphaned girl and two women who

ought to hate her. For both Sarah and Ruth McPherson, Kate becomes a cherished

surrogate daughter.

But tragedy strikes when Kate falls in love with Roddy Hamilton-Harvey, the son of

the man who once rejected her.

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