$16.95 (Paperback book / Candlewick Press / ISBN:9780763638122)
A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
A gothic novel of family mysteries and unlucky orphans.
Maud Flynn, inmate of the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, one day finds herself adopted into a real family, expecting to be pampered and cherished beyond her wildest dreams. But the elderly Hawthorne sisters, led by the charismatic Hyacinth, have other plans for her. As Maud is drawn deeper into the sisters' deception, she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience and independence -- until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are.
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Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by sellin... More »
A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
$16.95 (Paperback book / Candlewick Press )
A gothic novel of family mysteries and unlucky orphans.
Maud Flynn, inmate of the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, one day finds herself adopted into a real family, expecting to be pampered and cherished beyond her wil... More »