The stranger's kiss

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First her mother left her. Then her father preferred drowning his sorrows in drink to spending time with his young daughter. Before he died, he signed Jenny away to the care of her aunt and uncle, who barely tolerated her existence and arranged a marriage between her and Lord Bodley, a man more than twice her age. But now Lord Bodley is dead, and Jenny is charged with his murder. The only person who can prove her innocence is the stranger who kissed her in the garden glade--but he has abandoned her, as well. Caught in a web of intrique and fearful for her life, will Jenny find deliverance? And will she ever discover One on whose love she can