The Fledgling

After losing her parents to the Spanish Flu, Floriana is forced to leave the city where the disease has taken over. Before her mother dies she tells Floriana to go to Heather Ridge House on the coast, where her Godfather lives. When she arrives, bedraggled because her money had been stolen and she had to walk there, she discovers her Godfather is cruel and turns her into a servant, making her live in a believed to be haunted tower.Sheldon, her Godfather's son, claims he loves her and wants her to marry him when he turns eighteen. She is merely fifteen and he is sixteen. Because she believes Sheldon, she suffers the mistreatment of her Godfather, but eventually, wonders if she can even trust Sheldon.Determined to escape into a world of her own and eventually get revenge for the way she had been treated, Floriana is thrown into a journey to find herself again. With the help of her guardian, Connor, she works to gain new strength, but she feels that even Connor can't wait until his responsibility of her has ended.As she shuns men and craves love, she is caught in a trap of her own making, and wonders if getting revenge is worth it and whether she will ever escape her fears, and find true happiness.