Author: Walton Merritt

The rain poured in sheets as I stood on the stone steps of Whitmore Hall, clutching my newborn daughter

My name is Bertha, a sixty-seven-year-old retired teacher and widow.Three weeks ago, when my lease ended

**Diary Entry** Five years ago, Leonard Whitmores world shatteredonly to rise from the ashes with a brilliance

“You look just like your missing mother,” said the millionaires fiancéeand he froze. “

A stranger handed me a baby and a suitcase full of moneysixteen years later, I discovered his true identity.“

**Diary Entry, 12th June** Grandfather left me a crumbling cottage in the countrysidehis final gift.

The cleaner rescued a child in the sink… The millionaire father’s reaction stunned everyoneA

Long ago, in a small town in Yorkshire, there was a house where tension hung thick as the London fog. “

A Mothers Betrayal At the graduation ball, every girl wanted a photo with him. But he chose Lucy She

Five years after losing my wife, I attended my best friends wedding with my daughter. But my world shattered