Fair Mystery

When Mark Brace faces losing his ancestral farm, a dark night brings an answer to his prayers: a beautiful infant left on his doorstep, with a promise of a hundred pounds a year to raise her as his own. Mark and Patty Brace welcome the child, named Doris, into their humble home and pour every ounce of their simple, honest love into raising her. The farm is saved, and the fair-haired girl blossoms into a beauty that sets the countryside talking. But as Doris grows, so does her awareness of her own loveliness, and her burning conviction that she deserves far more than the humble farmers who rescued her. She hungers for velvet and jewels, for grand ballrooms and admirers kneeling at her feet. What follows is a cautionary tale of devastating ambition: a woman who mistakes beauty for entitlement, and the terrible price of ingratitude. Brame writes with sharp psychological precision about the corruption of the soul by unchecked desire, and the heartbreak of those who give everything only to be forgotten.