In pre-WWII Sweden, fate and secrets change an impetuous young woman's
life in a novel of deception, true love, and reinvention by the
bestselling author of The Inheritance of Lion Hall.
Sweden, 1931. Matilda Wallin has a future in Stockholm: business
college, then establishing a company with the young man she plans to
marry. It's all upended by her mother's death--and a stranger who has
been appointed her guardian. Matilda has no idea who Countess Agneta
Lejongård is or why this aristocrat has taken an interest in her. Agneta
summons Matilda to live with her and her family on their magnificent
country estate but remains mysterious about her connection to Matilda.
Torn from her previous life and its promises, Matilda has no choice but
to follow Agneta to venerated Lion Hall.
At first resistant to rural aristocratic life, Matilda tries to adjust.
In Agneta's son Ingmar, Matilda finds a new friend. In Ingmar's twin
brother, Magnus, she finds a churl who dismisses her as an interloper
beneath his family's stature. But just as the estate and Agneta's
benevolence win Matilda's heart, she discovers the secret that ties her
to the Lejongårds in ways she never imagined, which could change her
life once again. Now, Matilda must make a decision: return to Stockholm
and the commitments of her heart or take a risk on the unknown at Lion
Hall.
