As Charlotte drew closer to the looming grey edifice that was to become her temporary home, she could not help but notice the secretive shuttered windows. Then she noticed the milkweeds...  
  
Even a proper vicar's daughter can make a mistake--and now Charlotte Lamb must pay a high price for her fall. To avoid the prying eyes of all who know her, she hides herself away in London's forbidding "Milkweed Manor," a place of mystery and lore, of old secrets and new birth.  
  
But once there, she comes face to face with a suitor from her past--a man who now hides secrets of his own. Both are determined, with God's help, to protect those they love. But neither can imagine the depth of sacrifice that will be required.  
  
Sprinkled with fascinating details about the lives of women in Regency England, Lady of Milkweed Manor is a moving romantic drama about the redemption of past failings and the beauty of sacrificial love.

Julie Klassen loves all things Jane--Jane Eyre and Jane Austen. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Julie worked in publishing for sixteen years and now writes full time. She has won the Christy Award: Historical Romance for The Silent Governess (2010) and The Girl in the Gatehouse (2011) which also won the 2010 Midwest Book Award for Genre Fiction. Julie and her husband have two sons and live in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.julieklassen.com

The engaging and moving story of a once-proper lady who finds herself in a most unexpected situation; a romance set in Regency England.

Klassen, Julie

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue

Part I

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15 Part II

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32 Part III

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36 Epilogue

Author’s Note

Reading Group Discussion Questions

About the Author

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Contains the story of a once-proper lady who finds herself in a most unexpected situation.

In this inspirational historical romance debut novel set in 19th-century England, a young pregnant woman is forced to make difficult choices. Twenty-year-old Charlotte Lamb is the daughter of a heartless English vicar, as we discover when she becomes pregnant and he throws her out of her childhood home. Vulnerable and unprotected, she is forced to a lodging place for unwed mothers. Soon, Lamb must make decisions involving true love and sacrifice, providing many powerful turning points throughout the story.

Julie Klassen is a fiction editor and novelist who has worked in Christian publishing for many years. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and has a background in advertising. Julie and her husband have two sons and live in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Lady of Milkweed Manor is a historical novel based in South East England in the 19th Century, looking at the story of Charlotte, a vicar's daughter. Charlotte has fallen pregnant and therefore fallen from grace from her family and is sent away from home. An easy and delightful story that does not romanticise the problem the young girl faced. It does not aim to preach at the reader, but reveals a little of the social history and conditions of the time when it was totally unacceptable to be pregnant if you were not married; and yet there were people and doctors who were moved to help the plight of these unmarried mothers. The characters were likeable and ordinary - no outstanding saints among them - with questions, doubts and heartaches that often go unanswered. A good book for a holiday or a cold damp weekend!

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Lady of Milkweed Manor is a historical novel, based in South East England in the 19th Century, looking at the story of a Charlotte a vicar’s daughter. Charlotte has fallen pregnant and therefore fallen from grace from her family and is sent away from home. An easy and delightful story that does not romanticise the problem the young girl faced. It does not aim to preach at the reader, but reveals a little of the social history and conditions of the time when it was totally unacceptable to be pregnant if you were not married; and yet there were people and doctors who were moved to help the plight of these unmarried mothers. The characters were likeable and ordinary – no outstanding saints among them – with questions, doubts and heartaches that often go unanswered. A good book for a holiday or a cold damp weekend!

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