![]() ![]() And she refuses to give any credence to superstitious talk, even though she has grown up in the same little valley with folk who are steeped in tradition and superstitious ways. ![]() Charlotte doesn’t escape it, either no matter how hard she works or strives to better the mill, things keep going wrong. But the task is daunting, and the villagers have always talked about the “curse” that seems to hang over the mill - at the very least, it has been haunted by a string of bad luck. Now the Miller girls are all that is left.ĭespite her young age and the urging of a newfound uncle to sell the mill, Charlotte feels bound to keep it running on her own. Their mill, Stirwaters, has been handed down through several generations of men in the Miller family - but never from father to son - it has always been to cousins or other relations. Her mother died years before after giving birth to their baby brother, who lived only a week. Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Miller is left to run a woolen mill with the help of just her younger sister, Rosie, when her father dies. ![]()
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