02523cam a2200469 i 4500 1262077283 TxAuBib 180921s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018044474 9780062839022 0062839020 9780062839039 0062839039 9780062912299 0062912291 (OCoLC)20626 TxAuBib rda Willig, Lauren, author. The summer country : a novel / Lauren Willig. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019. 464 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past, a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.""--Provided by publisher. Haunted places Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Sugar plantations Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Lieux hant♭s Romans, nouvelles, etc. Successions et h♭ritages Romans, nouvelles, etc. Secrets de famille Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fiction. Barbados History 19th century Fiction. Barbade Histoire 19e si♭ʺcle Romans, nouvelles, etc. novels. Historical fiction. Novels. Romans.