Guy Falconer: Or, The Chronicles of the Old Moat House

When the old patriarch of the Falconer family lies dying, he faces a terrible choice: sell the ancestral Moat House to pay debts, or leave his family homeless. But his greatest worry is not for himself or his remaining children, Guy and Maude it is for the widow and children of his late son, also named Guy, who have no protector and no home of their own. As the estate crumbles around them, the villagers who have depended on the Falconers for generations react with fury and grief, their outrage threatening to shatter what little peace remains. Young Guy and his sister Maude must navigate a world where their family's honor hangs by a thread, where loyalty is tested, and where the weight of legacy presses down on those too young to carry it. Lucy Ellen Guernsey weaves a tender, bracing portrait of ordinary people facing extraordinary loss, of duty versus desire, and of the quiet heroism required to rebuild when everything familiar has been swept away. This is a story for anyone who has ever had to leave behind the place they called home.