Bitter Forfeit — Mabel Robinson

Could Lyssie hope to keep the secret that threatened her happiness?

Or would it haunt her with all its tragic memories? The man she loved with so much tenderness and passion -- the long, lonely months and the child she bore -- the child who would never know a mother…Lyssie knew that the very foundation of her happiness would be destroyed at once if she ever told. But was her secret the kind no woman can keep?