num_pages: 304
description: Raised in a poor yet genteel household Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief-stricken she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl respected and influential and he is standing with another daughter-his legitimate daughter. Which makes Rachel...not legitimate. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her past-even her very name-is a lie.Still reeling from the death of her mother and furious at this betrayal Rachel sets herself up in London under a new identity. There she insinuates herself into the party-going crowd of Bright Young Things with a steely determination to unveil her father's perfidy and bring his-and her half-sister's-charmed world crashing down. Very soon however Rachel faces two unexpected snags: she finds she genuinely likes her half-sister Olivia whose situation isn't as simple it appears; and she might just be falling for her sister's fianc...From Lauren Willig author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair comes The Other Daughter a page-turner full of deceit passion and revenge.
language: English
title: The Other Daughter
publisher: St. Martin's Press