A Second Legacy

Now, the author takes us to the swinging London of the 1960s, where shy, unglamorous Alexia Langley feels out of place even in her own family—and marries an ambitious young medical student in an attempt to find an identity. To a dilapidated Scottish castle, where Alexi learns something about love and about herself—after a heartbreaking divorce and a long struggle to establish a successful hotel while raising her daughter, Carly, on her own. And to Afghanistan, where a grown-up Carly will trace the roots of her own legacy in the dramatic nineteenth-century journey of her great-great-grandmother Charlotte: a woman who learned to face tragedy with bravery and to cross borders in search of her dreams...