The Marriage Of Opposites

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar o... (more)

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths, and her deep, lifelong friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own. To save her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frederic, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story ... (less)