Inheritance

When the widow of Thomas St. Clair returns to Scotland with her daughter Gertrude, she carries with her the scandal that shattered her husband's noble family. Thomas married beneath him, and his father, the Earl of Rossville, never forgave him. Now Gertrude is heiress to the Rossville name, and every relative, fortune-hunter, and social climber in Scotland seems determined to claim her inheritance through marriage. But Gertrude's heart complicate everything. She may be falling for the wrong man. As she navigates a storm of manipulative relatives, dubious suitors, and a mysterious stranger who haunts her mother, she must choose between duty to her family's precarious pride and her own desire. Written with sharp satirical wit and warm romantic sympathy, Ferrier's novel dissects the absurdities of class obsession while championing the courage it takes to carve out one's own destiny.