Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage.and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing with another daughter -- his legitimate daughter. Which makes Rachel.not legitimate. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her past -- even her very name -- is a lie.Still reeling from the death of her mother, and furious at this betrayal, Rachel sets herself up in London under a new identity.

There she insinuates herself into the party-going crowd of Bright Young Things, with a steely determination to unveil her father's perfidy and bring his -- and her half-sister's -- charmed world crashing down. Very soon, however, Rachel faces two unexpected snags: she finds that she genuinely likes her half-sister, Olivia, whose situation isn't as simple it appears; and that she might just be falling for her sister's fiance.From Lauren Willig, author of the "New York Times" Best Selling novel "The Ashford Affair," comes "The Other Daughter," a page-turner full of deceit, passion, and revenge.".