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MISTRESS
from Avon Red
Out Now
"Usually life changes slowly, almost
imperceptibly, as one day slides seamlessly into the next.
And sometimes life changes in the blink of an eye, with
only the turn of a door handle to demarcate the end of one
life and the start of another.
Emily Clemens stood dead in the street, an
island of stillness amidst the scurrying crowds, and stared
at the wooden door in front of her. Clutching her reticule
before her like a shield, as if to buffer herself from the
change that turning the handle would bring, she twisted the
straps around with cold fingers until they dug cruelly into
her flesh.
Should she open the door and go inside? Or
turn tail and walk away again through the crowds, her
dignity intact, back to the school where she worked as an
assistant teacher."
So begins the story of Emily, Caroline's
younger sister, continuing the saga of the Clemens children,
orphaned at a young age and left to die in the poor house
with nothing but their wits to make themselves a better
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