
Transcriber’s Notes:
NEVA’S CHOICE
SYNOPSIS OF “NEVA’S THREE LOVERS.”
CHAPTER I. NEVA’S ANSWER TO LORD TOWYN.
CHAPTER II. THE PUZZLE OF NEVA’S WHEREABOUTS.
CHAPTER IV. LALLY AND MRS. WROAT.
CHAPTER V. NEVA AND HER ENEMIES.
CHAPTER VI. WHERE NEVA’S TRAVELS ENDED.
CHAPTER VII. HOW LALLY TOOK HER DEPARTURE.
CHAPTER VIII. LALLY’S NEW EXISTENCE.
In the wake of her step‑father’s mysterious death, Neva Wynde finds herself the centre of a calculated marriage plot. The ambitious Black family, eager to secure her fortune, pushes for her union with the charismatic yet troubled Rufus Black. Yet Neva, guided by a strong sense of duty to God and her own principles, rejects the match outright, setting the stage for a clash of wills. Her refusal sends ripples through the tightly‑woven network of schemers who surround her.
Behind closed doors, Craven Black and his confidante Mrs. Artress plot their next move, while Rufus wanders the estate haunted by the memory of a vanished lover, Lalla, whose death he believes he helped cause. Tormented by guilt and desperate to prove his innocence, he confronts his father in a heated exchange that reveals the depth of the family’s deceptions. As alliances shift and secrets surface, Neva must navigate a world where love, ambition, and conscience are dangerously intertwined.
Full title
Neva's choice A sequel to "Neva's three lovers" A sequel to "Neva's three lovers"
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (411K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Street & Smith, 1892.
Credits
Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)
Release date
2022-07-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1841–1878
A prolific writer of sensation and romance fiction, she helped feed the huge appetite for serialized stories in nineteenth-century American weeklies. Her novels promised intrigue, mistaken identities, and emotional drama for a mass audience.
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