Beneath the mahogany tree, Charlotte dreams of another life. A mother's promise across the sea. A grandmother's love turned to legend. And a secret whispered through generations that the island itself seems to guard. When a photograph in a grand plantation house stirs something deep within her-a recognition too sharp to ignore-Charlotte begins to suspect that the truth of who she is lies not in the letters from England, but in the shadows of the Big House on the hill. As the tides of love, envy, and bloodline swirl around her, Charlotte must decide which inheritance to claim: the one she's been given, or the one that has been denied her.
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