Dawn Aldridge Poore

I usually don't like books set in this era, but Sarafina Jones was an unconventional heroine for the setting.

The cover makes no senses to me--a doll and blocks didn't figure into the book at all.

A group of women who have taken on the care of orphans move to the ancestral house in the country only to find it dilapidated and the local Lord claiming to own it.

Spoiler Alert:

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It seems odd that no one suspected that Sarafina's room might be the hiding place--especially after they found out the real identity of Edward--he'd tried to come into the room two or three times in the book and only the first one seemed "real" to me.… (meer)