Beside Still Waters

Deveroes #2 They were the Deveroes -- mother and daughter -- fierce-willed and determined to have their way, inheritors of the vast Hudson River estate called Southernwood. Emily -- Neither her father's fury, nor the threat of poverty could keep her from the man her heart had chosen: Fade Whitman. He was the man they all said was "beneath" her, and the man with whom she forged a triumphant love that was to endure through the generations... Damaris -- Proud, splendid, and destined to know the anguish of a heart divided between two men -- and the secret torment that was to shadow a lifetime and threaten all that was most precious, all that she had fought for, all that she lived for... Deveroes Series: Beyond the Shining River (Deveroes, #1) Beside the Still Waters (Deveroes, #2)

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.