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Prince Hakeem stared at the letter that had just arrived. He hoped that the news would be good, yet he prepared for the worst. He opened the letter and gazed at the words under the glow of a candle and hope that whatever it said had the power to shine a light on the darkness that he had always known.

17-year-old Verity Boone expects a warm homecoming when she returns to Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867, pledged to marry a man she has never met. Instead, she finds a father she barely knows and a future husband with whom she apparently has nothing in common.