The Selfless Sister — Shirley Kennedy

A Passion Frobidden

Miss Lucinda Linley has seen five of her six sisters marry--and she always atepped aside as the younger girls made their matches, refusing her own suitors for the good of her siblings. Now, with her father's money spent on too many dowries, she knows a suitable match is unlikely...

But when she meets Douglas Wyndham--the outcast lord of Ravensbrook--she finds her heart leaping with excitement. And Douglas can barely contain himself in the presence of this woman who shines brighter than the most refined of London's ladies. But a twenty-five-year-old tragedy divides the two families and threatens to crush their frragile love. And so, after all the sacrifices she made for her sisters, she must fight for her own greatest passion and bravely cross a deep divide of enmity--to cement a bond between the two families...