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In Her Own Right

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First published: 1911
Pages: 244

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John Reed Scott follows Geoffrey Croyden, a young man of leisure who loses most of his half-million-dollar inheritance when the brokerage house of Royster and Axtell fails. Rather than face the pity of Northumberland society, and the wealthy Elaine Cavendish he never quite proposed to, he slips away to Clarendon, a neglected colonial estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore that came to his father as security for a loan. A letter hidden in an old desk points him toward a pirate's hoard buried near Greenberry Point, below Annapolis, while his new life draws him close to Davila Carrington, a sea captain's granddaughter. Treasure hunt, quiet courtship, and the sting of reduced circumstances run side by side in a leisurely portrait of the American gentry around 1911.

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John Reed Scott

John Reed Scott (1869–1942) was an American lawyer and novelist, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He wrote mainly between 1906 and the late 1910s, specializing in romantic adventures and costume historical fiction. His popular titles include The Colonel of the Red Huzzars, Beatrix of Clare, and The Princess Dehra.

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