02599cam a2200505 i 4500 608188950 TxAuBib 20221027120000.0 180921s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018044474 9780062839022 hardback 0062839020 hardback 9780062839039 paperback 0062839039 paperback (OCoLC)1049794795 TxAuBib rda Willig, Lauren, author Summer country. 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. 20221027. Haunted places Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Sugar plantations Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. FICTION / Historical / General. FICTION / Thrillers / Historical. FICTION / Women. Family secrets. Haunted places. Inheritance and succession. Sugar plantations. Barbados History 19th century Fiction. Barbados. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. QS7