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The House of Closed Doors

By: Jane Steen
Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
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Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.

Small-town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth."

Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.

Until an unused padded cell is opened, and two small bodies fall out.

Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby, she may have no safe place to run to.

©2012 Jane Steen (P)2014 Jane Steen Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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While not an edge of your seat adventure this story is still an adventure on a different scale. I found myself intrigued with the main character and hope there are follow up books tracing her further adventures through life.

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