Darkest Hour The Fifth Book In The Cutler Series

Hardback

Condition: Good

Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest happiest Lillian's world is full of grand parties of sunshine and promises as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister Eugenia. No one not even her cold stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily can crush her spirits -- until the day Emily reveals the shattering secret at Lillian's birth a secret Mama sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily's hateful claim that she is evil a when sweet gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life and Mama retreats further into her fantasies. But when tragedy befalls her best friend the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own Lillian comes to believe Emily's grim words. Meekly she endures her penance finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Lillian's heart is torn anew when in a drunken haze Papa subjects her to the most brutal degradation. Then Papa loses The Meadows in a card game and Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Arrogant handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation -- if Lillian will marry him! Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove...