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For Gemma Alcott, daughter of business tycoon Burgess T. Alcott, III, the summer of 1929 is a season for picnics, sailing parties, and romance. But life becomes difficult when the Alcott wealth is lost in the Wall Street crash known as Black Tuesday. Gemma and her younger sister, Melody, are suddenly destitute. In their time of need, Kace Morgan, a distant relative appears and Gemma realizes she still has choices. But can she handle the loss of all she has known and a new life that is far from the sheltering wealth she has grown up with?Wednesday's child might have woe, but life is never so dark that God cannot deliver His own into paths of light. Book 3 in the series.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	15 novembre 2000
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736954457
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Cover by Koechel Peterson & Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota

WEDNESDAY’S CHILD

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chaikin, L.L., Wednesday’s child / Linda Chaikin p. cm. — (A day to remember series) ISBN 978-0-7369-0069-0 1. Children of the rich—Fiction. 2. Poor women—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Fiction. I. Title. PS3553.H2427 W46 2000 813'.54— dc21 00-044988

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LINDA CHAIKIN is an award-winning writer of more than 18 books. Her Trade Winds series includesCaptive Heart, Silver Dreams,andIsland Bride. Wednesday’s Childis the third book in the popular A Day to Remember series. Linda and her husband, Steve, make their home in California.

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PARTONE

Ashford Summerhouse Long Island, New York

He that is greedy for gain troubleth his own house…

Proverbs 15:27

t was a radiant summer morning at the shore in August. I The Ashfords’ Long Island summer mansion with brick-and-green-shuttered splendor stood proudly on private beachfront property. Without a doubt, this vacation home was easily as elitist as its third-generation master, millionaire banker and Wall Street mogul Burgess Ashford II. The Ashford family routinely came to Long Island each year to summer at the thirty-room “cottage.” In doing this they joined the tradition of other members of the wealthy aristocracy whose annual pilgrimages from New York and Boston lasted from late May through August. The elite, however, came not only to Long Island, but to the most favorable localities their status permitted: Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, Edgartown, Nantucket, and Bar Harbor. Here in their socially isolated Meccas, traditions died slowly and outsiders rarely disturbed those who believed they were born special. Sharlotte Ashford preferred to fraternize with her equals where the waters rippled cool and blue, and the zesty Atlantic breeze could at times whip up the waves into a meringue-like froth. Lazy afternoons were spent on wide covered porches sipping from tall

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minted glasses of lime sherbet with red-striped straws. High society debutantes collected fashionable summer tans while watching sailing yachts with white canvas sails snapping in the salty wind. These were the days of huge straw hats, Irish lace col-lars, and squash games. But this was also the Roaring Twenties, when the Bible and morality had been rejected, and ﬂappers dared to wear short skirts and bobbed hair for the ﬁrst time in American culture. Sharlotte had been taught from the age of three that the rich were a special breed of people who, to avoid social disaster, did not deviate from their legacy of proper breeding and lifestyle. One went to the right school, collected only certain friends, and— most of all—married one’s “own kind” in order to carry on the status quo. Sharlotte and her sister, Amanda, did everything expected of them without question: they took piano lessons, ballet lessons, dancing lessons, French lessons, tennis lessons, sailing lessons, riding lessons, and, at the appropriate age, went to Vassar College with other like-minded rich girls from blue-blooded families. Once there they discussed the rich boys from the Ivy League schools who were mythically considered of superior breeding, which went hand in hand with being well-educated, suave, and oh so very rich. Sharlotte adored coming to Long Island for the summer. At night there were communal clambakes or lobster fries on private beaches. While the men discussed their ever-climbing stock port-folios that seemed to be reaching toward the Empire State Building, their Ivy League sons would sneak away undetected to illegal speakeasies for a few hours of dancing. Here, where the big jazz bands performed, they secretly sipped bootlegged scotch from stylish hipﬂasks masterfully concealed from their busy, self-preoccupied Daddies and Mummies. Though Sharlotte avoided such vices, she knew ﬂapper girls who would join the boys after adding mascara to their eyelashes,

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