Dear Aunt Catherine

By Laurie Ann Pokin

Fleeing an abusive home in famine-scarred Ireland, a desperate young girl ventures alone across the ocean - chasing the fragile hope of finding her only remaining family (an estranged Uncle) and a future she'd only been allowed to imagine. America is meant to be her salvation, but when she finds her Uncle's mansion, it becomes a gilded cage.

The girl learns that wealth can hide rot, as she finds herself trapped under the watchful control of the house's volatile master: a man whose charm masks a growing darkness. Stripped of freedom and forced into servitude, she must summon a courage she never knew she possessed.

When her uncle dies under chilling circumstances, she is left in the power of the house's intoxicating and dangerous master - a man whose attention is as seductive as it is threatening. Trapped in a life of control and quiet terror, she must navigate a world where affection can become a weapon and trust may cost her everything. Yet within the darkness, unexpected tenderness flickers - a forbidden connection that awakens both longing and courage.

From the emerald hills of famine-stricken Ireland, across the Atlantic to the snow-crusted spine of the Rocky Mountains in the 1850's, Dear Aunt Catherine is a darkly romantic historical Western about survival, desire, and the fight for freedom and the promises of America.

This is a story of peril and passion - where escape is uncertain, love is dangerous, and one young girl must decide what she is willing to risk to claim her freedom... and her heart as she grows into a woman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1365627055
• ISBN13: 9781365627057
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: 978-1-365-62705-7
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"