![]() ![]() The two women entered into a secret bargain, an arrangement that was to change Kirsten’s fortune and place her in the middle of a bitter feud between two families. ![]() At the same time, Florence, mistress of the great house nearby, was told that her newborn son was dead. ![]() Rescued from the flood by the Flynn family, she gave birth to a child as the waters raged about her. Somehow, Kirsten survived her terrible childhood – only to be sold, at the age of fourteen, to a traveling tinker – a vicious man who raped her and held her captive until the fateful day they were separated during a storm. In the mid-1850s, life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel farmer. ![]()
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