The Cheapside Orphan's Inheritance: Victorian Romance
Rachel Downing
When four-year-old Harriet Dove sits behind the counter of her father's beloved Cheapside bookshop, she has no way of knowing how precarious her perfect world truly is. Edmund Dove presses books into the hands of the poor and preaches the stewardship of words; Catherine Dove keeps the accounts and whispers the Twenty-Third Psalm each night at her daughter's bedside. It is a life rich in everything that matters — until, in a single catastrophic night, it is gone.
Left alone in London at twelve, with nothing but her mother's Bible and her father's stubborn conscience, Harriet must survive a city that offers little mercy to the defenceless. But survival, it turns out, is only the beginning. Because the man who profited from her family's ruin is closer than she knows — and Harriet has inherited more than grief. She has inherited her mother's eye for a ledger, her father's belief in justice, and a patience that runs deeper than anyone around her suspects.
Can a penniless orphan expose a powerful man's crimes armed with nothing but careful observation and the truth? And when a quiet, ink-stained young printer begins to see her — really see her — can Harriet learn to trust that not every door opens onto ruin?
Rachel Downing writes wholesome historical romance with strong Christian themes. If you enjoy books by Dilly Court and other Victorian Romance writers, you will love this inspiring tale of faith and redemption.
Brimming with the enduring power of courage and quiet devotion, “The Cheapside Orphan's Inheritance” is a story where the meek do not merely endure — they prevail.
