The first book in the epic bestselling Morland Dynasty
series which spans from the Wars of the Roses to Queen
Victoria's long reign, where war and famine, peace and
plenty, love and loyalty, greed and envy spread the lines of
the family throughout the country—into the courts of kings
and the salons of the Regency, onto the battlefields of
Culloden and the Crimea and beyond.
In The
Founding, seeking power and prestige, grim, ambitious
Yorkshireman Edward Morland arranges a marriage between his
meek son Robert and spirited Eleanor, young ward of the
influential Beaufort family. Eleanor is not only appalled at
being forced to marry a mere "sheep farmer," but is secretly
in love with Richard, Duke of York. Yet, in time, this
apparently ill-matched union becomes both passionate and
tender, the foundation of the Morland Dynasty, and sustains
them through bloody civil war which so often divides
families, sets neighbor against neighbor, and brings tragedy
close to home.
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