The Other Daughter

Rachel Woodley grew up in a poor but genteel household in a small English town. She is working as a governess in France when word comes that her mother has died suddenly. She travels home to clear out the family cottage.

Among her mother's belongings she finds a cutting from a London society magazine. The photograph, taken only three months earlier, shows the father she believed dead. He is an earl, respected and influential, and he stands beside his legitimate daughter. That makes Rachel illegitimate, and even her name turns out to be false.

Still grieving and angry, Rachel moves to London under an assumed identity. She makes her way into the party-going circle of the Bright Young Things, set on exposing her father's deceit and bringing down the privileged world he shares with his other daughter.

The plan runs into trouble. Rachel finds she genuinely likes her half-sister, Olivia, whose circumstances are less simple than they look. She may also be falling for Olivia's fiancé. This is a historical novel of revenge and romance, driven by deception and divided loyalties in 1920s-style London society.