'Lady Vernon and Her Daughter' is a historical fiction novel inspired by a short story written by Jane Austen. The plot revolves around a 30'ish wife and her 17-year-old daughter who face challenges after the untimely death of their beloved husband and father. They struggle with inheritance issues, manipulative family members, and rumors while trying to secure their financial future. The story is filled with gossip, misunderstandings, social machinations, and complex characters reminiscent of Austen's works.
From The Publisher:
In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan , and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found-and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.
Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and without a home after the death of Sir Frederick Vernon, Susan's husband. Frederick' s brother and heir, Charles Vernon, like so many others of his time, has forgotten his promises to look after the women, and despite their fervent hopes to the contrary, does nothing to financially support Lady Vernon and Frederica.
When the ladies, left without another option, bravely arrive at Charles's home to confront him about his treatment of his family, they are faced with Charles's indifference, his wife Catherine's distrustful animosity, and a flood of rumors that threaten to undo them all. Will Lady Vernon and Frederica find love and happiness-and financial security-or will their hopes be dashed with their lost fortune?
With wit and warmth reminiscent of Austen's greatest works, Lady Vernon and Her Daughter brings to vivid life a time and place where a woman's security is at the mercy of an entail, where love is hindered by misunderstanding, where marriage can never be entirely isolated from money, yet where romance somehow carries the day.
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