Straw in the wind
by Janet Woods
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father, hearing rumours that his lost daughter survived, dispatches a detective, Adam Chapman, to discover the truth. Adam finds, and falls in love with, Serafina--but, even if he can prove her identity, will her real family accept her. Sequel to "Salting the Wound."
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Ship captains, Family secrets, Private investigators, Romance fiction, Abandoned children, Fiction, Family relationships, Social conditions, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, general, Private investigators, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, family life, generalPlaces
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1835, England. Serafina Finn is conceived as the result of a love affair between a sea captain and a married woman, who dies while giving birth. Abandoned to an orphanage, Serafina grows up never quite knowing who she is. Eighteen years after her birth, and having heard rumours that his lost daughter is alive, her father instigates a search. He hires a detective, Adam Chapman, to track Serafina down ...
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