![]() ![]() For four years, the girl was further ostracized, hated by the woman she'd hoped to look on as a mother and ridiculed by her daughters Rosamund and Posy. ![]() ![]() But everything changed when her father married a widow with two daughters, and Araminta, the new countess, taught Sophie what it meant to be shamed for possessing antecedents well and truly out of her control. As the bastard daughter of the Earl of Penwood, Sophie knew she rested behind the thinnest veneer of respectability - claimed as the earl's ward, but with the truth of her parentage write clear on her features, until her tenth year Sophie enjoyed a life that, although lacking the emotional security of family ties that she craved, provided for the physical needs of food, shelter, and education. An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons #3)įrom her earliest childhood memories, Sophie Beckett knew the truth of her parentage, and as a consequence, her place relative to the world of the rarefied English ton - strictly outside the elite ranks of that social whirl. ![]()
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