Kathleen Grissom

The Kitchen House

Paperback (Large Print Press March 5, 2013) , Large Print, Reprint edition
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant. Placed with the slaves in the kitchen house under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her new adopted family, even though she is forever set apart from them by her white skin. As Lavinia is slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles an opium addiction, she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When Lavinia marries the master's troubled son and takes on the role of mistress, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare and lives are put at risk. The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail..
Series
Kennebec Large Print Superior Collection
ISBN
1594136440 / 9781594136443
Pages
626
Weight
20.8 oz.
Dimensions
5.5 x 1.0 in.

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