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|title=The Wedding Gift

|sort=Wedding Gift, The

|publisher=Arrow

|date=June 2014

|website=http://www.marlenbodden.com

|summary=A slave girl is given as a gift to her half-sister on her wedding day in this gripping tale based on a real-life court case.

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Half-sisters Clarissa and Sarah couldn’t lead more different lives. Clarissa is a typical 'Southern Belle'; the apple of her daddy's eye with every whim dutifully indulged. Sarah, the daughter of a slave, lives in a cabin on the plantation with her mother and has been born into a life of servitude. Their father is plantation owner Cornelius Allen, a man prone to violent mood swings: at one moment a benevolent patron, the next, a cruel tyrant.