Raquella Hart

Victoria Sterling keeps the accounts at Rosewood Manor and has counted its rooms twice. So when a narrow green door appears in the west corridor, she cannot leave it alone. With the help of Spencer Cavendish, the charming and controlling son of a neighbouring family, Victoria follows a trail of ledgers, a hidden nursery, and an empty grave into a secret her family has guarded for eighteen years. What she discovers will force her to question not only the people who raised her, but the story she has always been told about her own birth. As the truth surfaces, Victoria must decide who she is, what she owes the people who lied to her, and whether she can love a man who keeps deciding what she can bear. Her answer is to ask for time. She builds a life as a writer, makes a costly mistake of her own, and discovers that telling the truth—and allowing others to tell theirs—can be harder than uncovering the truth in the first place.