Lady of Monkswood Manor — Sarah Farrant

Carrie suspected her doting aunt of having too intense and interest in her health -- and her money. For some scant months before Carrie was to fully inherit the Monkswood estates and wealth, her health deteriorated at an alarming rate.

Convinced she would never live to inherit it she remained at Monkswood Manor, the proud pampered girl hatched a wild scheme to elude her would-be murderers. She would flee by night, never to be seen again as the heiress Makaria Monkswood. Instead she would be Carrie Jackson, serving girl. A clever idea, until she discovered such a different kind of life would also need surviving…