Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Although her daughters-in-law weren't born to her, Mrs. Lewis treated each one with the love of a mother.

As long as they joined the Lewis family, supported their husbands, and brought children into the family, she would cherish them as daughters.

She gifted each daughter-in-law some treasured jewelry, intending these pieces would one day be passed on to her grandchildren.

The in-laws of the Lewis family were wealthy in their own right, and each daughter-in- law brought a considerable dowry.

Jewelry wasn’t something they lacked, but they still cherished Mrs. Lewis’s gifts and promised to hand them down within the family.

The young wives of the Lewis family had already begun collecting jewelry for their own daughters, embracing a family culture that treated all children equally, regardless of gender.

Mrs. Lewis had a special fondness for her granddaughters, having had only sons herself.

She’d once worried the Lewis home would become too much like the York household, where sons far outnumbered daughters.

granddaughters and grandsons alike: four grandsons and

Mrs. Lewis secretly hoped for a granddaughter with Liberty’s gentle features

Mrs. Lewis with

to

Lewis’s gift, Duncan’s aunts

at a simple family dinner,

warm smile, she accepted them all

gifts from the family when he returned from playing with Rocco, who

with Sonny, Rocco, and Duncan, went

out of the house, they tore off like wild horses, quickly

Watching them, Liberty laughed.

understand why Mom and Third Sister-in-law are always

little whirlwind! No wonder Sonny

more of a handful than his uncle Rowan.” Rowan, soon to be preparing for