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So in love, Karen Ranney

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So in love

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Karen Ranney

The Highland lords, bk. 5

At sixteen, Jeanne du Marchand finds herself carrying her lover's child, expecting to marry him so they could begin their happily ever after. Her arrogant father steps in and tells her that her lover has abandoned her. Jeanne is sent away to bear her child in disgrace. After the child is born it is taken away and Jeanne is sent to a convent where she is to pay for her sins for the next nine years. Jeanne hopes that her lover will come for her, hopes to be reunited with her child and endures physical and mental torture at the convent so that she can find them again someday. At seventeen, Douglas MacRae's heart is shattered when he was abandoned by Jeanne. A servant tells him Jeanne is with child and has fled from him, never wanting to see him again. Leaving France for his native Scotland, Douglas is distraught, but resolves to return to France and at least find his child. At Jeanne's family estate, he learns that she has borne their child and has left it with an old peasant couple. Douglas takes his malnourished, nearly dead infant daughter from the couple and returns with her to Scotland, hating Jeanne for abandoning the child. He names the baby Margaret. Jeanne and Douglas meet again ten years later. Jeanne has been forced to flee both the convent and France because of the Revolution, and decides to make her way to Scotland. She works as a governess for a business associate of Douglas's. When her employer makes improper remarks about her to Douglas, Douglas seeks her out and offers her a job as his governess