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Spindrift
Phyllis A. Whitney
A widow returns to a Newport estate to uncover her father's death — and escape her iron-fisted mother-in-law.
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Christy Moreland, returned to the Moreland's palatial Newport estate to discover the reason for her father's death, confronts her domineering mother-in-law in a struggle for her son's freedom and her own life
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