Heirs of Deceits

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Set in late Victorian England, the story explores themes of social class, destitution, and religion through the life of Sir Gilbert Stanley, a Tory politician and wealthy landowner. Haunted by his past relationships with peasant mistresses and their tragic fates, he secretly yearns for the children he abandoned, who unknowingly become part of his household as servants. Their ambiguous status leads to favoritism, shocking the outside world and culminating in a chaotic implosion marked by murder and turmoil.