Lily Pearl and the Mistress of Rosedale

The storm that lashes Cliff House on the night Lillian gives birth is nothing compared to the tempest inside its walls. A mother, adorned in finery, waits for her daughter to emerge from labor, and from the secrets that delivery will unravel. The child born that night, and another already in the house, hold the keys to a past the mistress of Rosedale has fought to bury. As the Civil War reshapes the nation outside, within this household, long-buried truths about blood and belonging threaten to destroy everything she's built. Ida Glenwood weaves a tale of maternal love turned poisonous, of daughters who discover their origins are not what they believed, and of the terrible prices paid to preserve reputation in an unforgiving age.