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Gr 9 Up—In 1872 England, beautiful and wealthy 17-year-old Leonora Somerville is dutifully seeking a suitable husband under her older sister's critical eye. Leonora's speech is flawed by a stutter and sudden, startling, fluent outbursts of another's voice. Her peculiar disorder frightens others but intrigues handsome Francis Thornfax, the business partner of Leonora's brother-in-law, Dr. Dewhurst. Despite Leonora's attraction to Thornfax, she has questions about his secretive opium import business, the experimental "charity" treatments g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More