And he wants her, whether she is willing to help him or not. She comes to both respect and like her employer, even after she discovers the nature of his accident.Īll is not sweetness and light, however, for Cameron has an enemy who is not above using Rose to get to her employer. As she helps Cameron with his research, she begins to discover her own magical powers. She is very much surprised to realize that his research is of a magical nature. Instead, she learns that Cameron has hired her to read to him because he can no longer conduct his research due to an accident. She is to the point of contemplating suicide when she is offered a position as a governess to a wealthy family in San Francisco.īut when she arrives at the home of Jason Cameron, her new employer, she finds that he has no wife, nor children, and the only servant she ever sees is his secretary, Paul du Mond, to whom she takes an instant dislike. She is possessed of an advanced university degree and is working on her doctorate when her father suddenly dies, leaving her at the mercy of his creditors and their lawyers. It is still unusual to find a female scholar.Ĭhicago-born Rosalind Hawkins, however, is not the usual fainting flower of the times. Women wear long skirts and corsets, and do not have the right to vote. Electric lights are just becoming known most houses still use gaslights.
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