Im Hause des Kommerzienrates.

A novel published in 1876. Young Käthe Mangold inherits a vast fortune from her grandfather, only to find herself under the guardianship of the ambitious Kommerzienrat Moritz Römer. As Moritz schemes to control her wealth and Flora, her sister, pursues a reluctant engagement with the doctor Käthe secretly loves, the heiress must navigate family betrayal and social ambition in 1870s Germany to secure both