Monica - Complete

At Trevlyn, Monica has built a fragile happiness with her aging father and her delicate, invalid step-brother. But the entailment that binds their estate to the male line means that when her father dies, a distant cousin she has never met will inherit everything, and her brother will have no home. When this cousin appears, Monica faces an impossible choice: marry him and secure her family's future, or refuse and watch her brother cast out from the only home he's ever known. Yet beneath the surface of this arrangement lies something more complicated, old wounds, hidden resentments, and a childhood friend whose presence complicates everything she thought she wanted. Everett-Green weaves a tender portrait of duty, sacrifice, and the question of whether love can grow from obligation. For readers who cherish Victorian novels of manners and moral complexity, Monica is a quiet revelation: a story about what we owe family, what we owe ourselves, and the impossible prices we sometimes pay for home.