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A blessing and a cursea] Lady Marguerite Collingsworth has long been one of the wealthiest and most powerful noblewomen in England. Yet with all of the privilege that her vast wealth could buy, she has finally come to know the most priceless of possessions, the child of a lost daughter. But even her position cannot shield her from the evil of the one who has sought to take everything from her, including her granddaughter, Leila. With the newly found loyalty and friendship of honorable merchant seaman Captain Michael Faulkland, she will rise up to forge an entirely new place in society as the most respected of matriarchs and make the budding allegiance of Michael and her headstrong grandchild a safe place to grow and thrive and her home a fortress of safety for her and her newfound family. In the wake of absolute vengeance from the darkest of hearts, all in her house will find that through the greatest tide of adversity the reclamation of a long-guarded birthright made right will fan the flames of the most powerful of all emotions, love.