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ABEAUT]FUL WOMAN of high sensibilities,
frustrated in her attempt to conquer Beacon Hill
society; a driven man whose consuming ambition is
revenge on a world that scorned him--these are the
passionate antagonists whose conflicts blaze at the
heart of the splendid new saga by the author of THIS
IS THE HOUSE,
Against the gradual decline of Cape Coifs maritime
trade, THE HOUSE OF KINGSLEY MERRICK follows
the turmoils and dynastic tangles of the progeny of
Molly Deems and her seafaring husband, Elijah
Merrick. As steam shipping and the railway come to
the Cape, the old authority of the Clipper captains is
eroded. But their long and autocratic domination of
Cape society has left its mark on many, chief among
them:
KINGSLEY MERRICK: Kingsley is a lonely, driven man,
bound to revenge himself on the town of Waterford
for the slights he endured as a boy when his wastrel
father drank himself to death and became the town
pariah. Kingsley s plan to "bring Waterford to heel"
involves a respectable marriage to his lovely cousin,
Julia, and the investment of his fortune made in
Australia s coaching trade in enterprises destined to
scandalize Waterford s leading citizens: sponsoring
the hated Cape Cod Railway; forcing the industriali-
zation of Waterford s mill district; engineering the
merger of its churches, and re-designing the
workings of th town to suit his own whim. The
single error in his carefully calculated scenario of
revenge is his choice of Julia as his bride;
JULIA MERRICK: is virtually forced into marriage to
Kingsley to save her family s waning fortune. Still
"smarting from her failure to penetrate Boston s elitist
Beacon Hill society, and from an attempt on her
virtue by an aristocratic Boston rake,Julia is in no way
prepared m be either bed- or soul-mate to Kingsley
Merrick. And, inevitably, the shadow of their ill-
starred union reaches into the next generation to
cloud the happiness of their daughter;
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