Sandringham Rose — Mary Mackie

When Rose Hamilton's mother died in childbirth her father, a gentleman farmer on the royal Sandringham Estate, was so devastated that he could never bring himself to love the daughter whose birth had killed his beloved wife. At the age of seventeen Rose confirms his worst doubts by falling pregnant by a man she refuses to name. Bundled away to give birth in secret, her baby lost to her forever, she returns to face her family again -- and the man who, although he doesn't know it, has fathered her child -- Geoffrey Devlin. But more immediately she must contend with another family tragedy, the death of her brother and the ever greater excesses of bitterness and hostility his loss provokes in her father.