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Jilted! Or, My Uncle's Scheme, Volume 2

Name: Jilted! Or, My Uncle's Scheme, Volume 2
Author: William Clark Russell

William Clark Russell

Charlie has discovered his uncle's ugly scheme: marry Theresa, the cousin you've barely met, and inherit her fortune. The catch is unbearable. Charlie is already in love with Conny, another cousin, and the entire arrangement feels like a transaction dressed in family ties. But Volume 2 opens with the aftermath. The scheme has collapsed or been exposed, and Charlie finds himself jilted not once but twice: by the money he never wanted and by the woman he was forced to pretend to desire. Now he must navigate the wreckage of his uncle's machinations while fighting for what his heart actually chose. Russell writes with sharp-eyed sympathy for young lovers trapped in arrangements made by older men who mistake wealth for wisdom. The emotional terrain is treacherous: pride wounded, trust broken, futures uncertain. What remains is the question that haunts all such novels whether love conquers when family and fortune conspire against it.