T J Burden

Avenging Her Destiny T J Burden

Publisher Marketing: Cassandra's sheltered but happy life is shattered when her father whom she adored shoots himself after losing everything gambling. Bereft of her mother a year ago she has nowhere to go. She agrees to marry the new owner despite his ill repute. When he tells her that he intends to exercise his husbandry rights, Cassandra is taken aback. What does he mean? She is mortified when she finds out. She wonders if she is out of her depth. On her wedding bed she notices her father's medallion around his neck. Her mind in turmoil, suspicion enters her mind. She hears him finishing his pleasure and decides to pretend she is traumatized. He leaves her to recuperate with a promise to return soon. He invites his sidekicks to the Manor and one dark afternoon Cassandra overhears them talking and finds out that her father was shot by one of them. Frightened she decides to runaway and is offered a haven as a nanny. She settles into a happy routine, until one day she meets a handsome man and is enamored with him. Has true love found her at last? When he finds out that she is married he lashes out at her in anger and he leaves her broken hearted. Destiny trips her again when she finds out that she is having a child. So much has happened in her young life, she succumbs to the malady she pretended earlier. Her husband finds her and demands an explanation to why she ran away...