Her Secret Son

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At Cock Shield Farm in 1881, Molly Geary becomes pregnant by landowner Angus McBain and faces social ruin if the affair is exposed. McBain protects himself by forcing responsibility onto his employee Davie Armstrong, arranging a marriage that gives the child a respectable name while leaving Molly and Davie to live with a deception created for another man's convenience.

The imposed marriage binds two people who did not choose one another and gives McBain continuing power over their lives. Molly must negotiate motherhood, reputation and her connection to the child's real father while Davie confronts the cost of being used to conceal his employer's conduct. The novel centres on class and sexual double standards in a rural community where wealth can transfer the consequences of scandal onto those with far less power.