The Favoured Child

The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke black ruin.

But in the Dower House two children are being raised in procteted innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrohal but forbidden to marry.

Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir.