Straw in the wind
By: Janet Woods
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sutton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780727868930; 9781847512352
Subjects: Ship captains; Fiction; Family relationships; Abandoned children; Private investigators; Family secrets; Social conditions
Description: 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."
Table of contents: title: 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; title: but, even if he can prove her identity, will her real family accept her. Sequel to "Salting the Wound."