illegitimacy

"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel 'Wuthering Heights'"--Provided by publisher.

"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--Provided by publisher.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.

Tiffany comes to live with her wealthy biological father, whom she has never met, and his family after her mother's death, but her position in her very strict new home is threatened when another man claims to be her father.

An eleven-year-old girl describes her life and relationship with her mother who has never married.

"The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited. When Mehr's power comes to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, she must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist their cruel agenda. Should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeance"--Provided by publisher.

Patriarch Hector Sandoval struggles to provide for his family after fleeing the poverty of Mexico in the 1970s, and faces discrimination and injustice when his granddaughter, Mariana, becomes pregnant by David, an Anglo student who refuses to marry her.

Tilla, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Kent, bands together with other outcasts in an attempt to prevent civil war and protect Lyriana, a sheltered, visiting princess whose life is in danger.

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Tilla, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Kent, bands together with other outcasts in an attempt to prevent civil war and protect Lyriana, a sheltered, visiting princess whose life is in danger.