House of the Shining Tide

"You and your sister are two of a kind! "

Judith had always had trouble with her stepsister, so when Lorette got engaged to a young farmer Judith felt a great relief.

But it soon appeared that Lorette's fiance's family wanted to prevent the marriage, and Judith responded to her stepsister's selfish demands for help one last time, to try to keep the engagement together.

She had formidable opposition from the autocratic Craig Argyll, who didn't like Judith at all. "Another woman with an eye to the main chance! " he said.