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| 100 | 1 | _aStirling, Adelaide | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aWhen love dawns |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aEagle series, no. 448 | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-03-08 | ||
| 508 | _aDemian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) | ||
| 520 | _aWhen love dawns by Adelaide Stirling is a novel written in the early 20th century. Blending romance with social intrigue and a touch of Gothic mystery, it follows impulsive Dolly Arden—secretly married to an earl—and her guarded stepsister Magdalen Clyde as sudden wealth propels them from precarious city life to a brooding Scottish estate. Themes of identity, reputation, and class tension surface alongside predatory suitors, hostile servants, and the hint of a steadier love for Magdalen. The opening of When love dawns shows Dolly and Magdalen in London on the brink of ruin until Dolly reveals proof of a secret marriage to the late Earl of Barnysdale and a letter allowing her to claim her status after his death; their acceptance by the family lawyer makes Dolly a countess and her little son Ronald the new earl. A perilous incident at a noisy restaurant is averted when a stranger, Dick Lovell, kills the lights and spirit them out, and he later reappears in Fleet Street to offer quiet, genuine help—sharply contrasting with Starr-Dalton, a menacing creditor who won’t let Dolly go. Seeking safety and respectability, they travel across the River Clyde to Ardmore Castle and find only cold rooms, evasive, aging servants, and a house steeped in unease. Magdalen endures a vivid nightmare of silent murder that deepens the foreboding. Tensions sharpen when Dolly confronts the housekeeper, Mrs. Keith, over locked rooms “kept for Stratharden,” only to be flatly defied—leaving the sisters isolated in a hostile home where power, secrets, and danger seem to gather. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aAmerican fiction -- 19th century | ||
| 653 | _aDime novels | ||
| 653 | _aRomance fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aEagle series, no. 448 | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:1211880 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78149 |
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