Matilda's Secret

In pre-WWII Sweden, fate and secrets change an impetuous young womans life in a novel of deception, true love, and reinvention by the bestselling author of The Inheritance of Lion Hall. Sweden, 1931. Matilda Wallin has a future in Stockholm: business college, then establishing a company with the young man she plans to marry. Its all upended by her mothers deathand a stranger who has been appointed her guardian. Matilda has no idea who Countess Agneta Lejongrd is or why this aristocrat has taken an interest in her. Agneta summons Matilda to live with her and her family on their magnificent country estate but remains mysterious about her connection to Matilda. Torn from her previous life and its promises, Matilda has no choice but to follow Agneta to venerated Lion Hall. At first resistant to rural aristocratic life, Matilda tries to adjust. In Agnetas son Ingmar, Matilda finds a new friend. In Ingmars twin brother, Magnus, she finds a churl who dismisses her as an interloper beneath his familys stature. But just as the estate and Agnetas benevolence win Matildas heart, she discovers the secret that ties her to the Lejongrds in ways she never imagined, which could change her life once again. Now, Matilda must make a decision: return to Stockholm and the commitments of her heart or take a risk on the unknown at Lion Hall.