Grace's Courage by Annemarie Brear

Grace's Courage by Annemarie Brear

Grace Woodruff fights for her sisters' rights to happiness while sacrificing any chance for her own. The eldest of seven daughters, Grace is the core of strength around which the unhappy members of the Woodruff family revolve. As her disenchanted mother withdraws to her rooms, Grace must act as a buffer between her violent, ambitious father and the sisters who depend upon her. Rejected by her first love and facing a spinster's future, she struggles to hold the broken family together through her father's infidelity, one sister's alcoholism, and another's out-of-wedlock pregnancy by an unsuitable match. Caring for an illegitimate half-brother affords Grace an escape, though short-lived. Forced home by illness and burdened with dwindling finances, Grace faces fresh anguish --and murder-- when her first love returns to wreck havoc in her life. All is not lost, however. In the midst of tragedy, the fires of her heart are rekindled by another. Will the possibility of true love lead Grace to relinquish her responsibilities in the house of women and embrace her own right to happiness?

AnneMarie Brear, an award-winning author and Amazon UK bestseller, has always loved to read and began writing in 1997, while her children were still young. She is fascinated by history and great old English houses, as well as what may have transpired beyond their walls. Reading, traveling, watching movies, spending time with family, and eating chocolate are among her passions - albeit not usually in that order!