Claudine's Daughter

Description for CLAUDINE'S DAUGHTER by Rosalind Laker: The magnificent Italian carriage that brought Lucy di Castelloni to the English seaside resort of Easthampton was no more exotic than the woman herself. Beautiful, fiercely independent, and mysterious, the young widow aroused the curiosity of some of the town's most eligible bachelors---and the suspicions of several Easthampton ladies. Why was such an elegant woman traveling alone so soon after her husband's death? And why had she chosen to begin a new life in a place where she was a total stranger? What no one suspected was that Lucy Attwood di Castelloni had come home---to see out Attwood Grange, her parents' ancestral estate, and claim it for her own. Born in Italy of English parents and orphaned as a child, Lucy had spent her girlhood in the restricted world of an Italian convent---until she was married off at a very young age to a wealthy but elderly land owner. Now Stefano was dead. And Lucy dreamed of freedom