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Her Good Name [Kindle Edition] Ruth Axtell (Author)


http://www.amazon.com/Her-Good-Name-..._158280011_f_3

In the 1890 thriving coastal town of Holliston, Maine, the leading lumber
baron's son, Warren Brentwood, III, returns from his years away at college and traveling
to take up his position as heir apparent to his father's business empire.

Esperanza
Estrada is the daughter of a Portuguese immigrant fisherman who has grown up surrounded
by a brood of brothers and sisters and a careworn mother. Unable to pretend she
is anything but "one of those Estradas," Espy has no chance with Warren, no
matter how striking she is. When she overhears of a position to clean
house at a local professor's home on Elm Street, she jumps at the opportunity,
hoping to be able to run into Warren Brentwood now and again as well as to imbibe the
cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the Stocktons.

When rumors
about Espy and this respected, married gentleman of the community begin to circulate,
the entire church congregation and then the community pronounce judgment on her
behavior. The man Espy is in love with, Warren, believes the lie and his loss
of faith in her causes Espy to give up without a fight. She leaves her family and
hometown for the nearest city with little money and no acquaintances and is forced
to spend the night on the street. A man who heads a mission for the homeless finds
Espy and offers her shelter. Espy finds the true love of God while working at the
mission. Will she be able to forgive the townspeople and return home?