An Important Family

An Important Family

<DIV><DIV><b><i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author Dorothy Eden returns to her roots in this riveting romantic saga about an English family that carves out a new life in the primitive wilds of New Zealand . . . and the woman who uncovers their dark secret </b></div><DIV><BR>For Kate O’Connor, desperate to escape her tragic past in England, the opportunity to immigrate to New Zealand with Sir John Devenish and his wife and daughter is a chance to start over.<BR><BR>Exhilarated by this wild, primitive place on the other side of the world, Kate’s happiness is marred by a love she knows is taboo. When a sudden and suspicious death throws her life into turmoil, she begins to uncover the real reason the Devenish family left England.<BR><BR>From a grand townhouse in London to a sheep farm in New Zealand, <i>An Important Family</i>,which was hailed by theCleveland <i>Plain Dealer </i>as“a compulsive page turner,” is the story of a country in the midst of colonization—a transformation that parallels Kate O’Connor’s own rite of passage into womanhood as she finds her future in a magnificent new land.</div></div>