num_pages: 400
description: From Book 1: One house two worlds... Rose Cliffe has never met a young lady like her new mistress. Clever rich and beautiful Ada Averley treats Rose as an equal. And Rose could use a friend. Especially now that she at barely sixteen has risen to the position of ladies' maid. Rose knows she should be grateful to have a place at a house like Somerton. Still she can't help but wonder what her life might have been had she been born a lady like Ada. For the first time in a decade the Averleys have returned to Somerton their majestic ancestral estate. But terrible scandal has followed Ada's beloved father all the way from India. Now Ada finds herself torn between her own happiness and her family's honor. Only she has the power to restore the Averley namebut it would mean giving up her one true love . . . someone she could never persuade her father to accept. Sumptuous and enticing the first novel in the At Somerton series introduces two worlds utterly different yet entangled where ruthless ambition forbidden attraction and unspoken dreams are hidden behind dutiful smiles and glittering jewels. All those secrets are waiting . . . at Somerton.
language: English
title: Cinders & Sapphires
publisher: Disney-Hyperion