The Lost Daughters: Book 6
Publication Date: March 20, 2025
Argentina, 1939: “My darling Valentina, I beg you to not go through with this marriage. I know your duty to your family means the world to you, but I pray our love means more. Let us run away together, and never be parted again…”
London, Present day. Rose once thought she was alone in the world, having just lost her beloved mother a few months ago. So, when she is presented with a mysterious box containing a small figure of a horse, a scrap of glittering silk and the hope of a lost family being found, Rose will stop at nothing to find them.
When her search takes her to a sprawling and luxurious estate in Argentina, where the best polo horses in the world were once raised, Rose wonders if she’s mistaken. But when she meets a charming local, Benjamin, he takes her by the hand and encourages her to rediscover her roots.
As they spend long sunlit days riding horses, and cosy evenings eating dinner with his family, Rose wonders how she will ever return to the grey skies back home. But then she discovers a heart-wrenching story of two forbidden lovers: a wilful Spanish heiress and a hardworking stable hand, ripped apart by an arranged marriage and one of the largest inheritances in the country, which intertwines Rose and Benjamin’s families in ways she could never have imagined.
As Benjamin’s family grow wary of the stranger in their home dredging up the pain of the past, Rose finds herself at a crossroads. Will her great-grandmother’s story give her the courage to fly in the face of convention and follow her heart? Or will she too have to give up the one she loves most to heal family ties…
A heartbreaking and page-turning novel about following your heart and never giving up on love. Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and Victoria Hislop.
Reeling from the loss of her grandmother, followed soon after by her mother, Rose Bellamy tries to adjust to being on her own. When a letter arrives naming her mother as the sole beneficiary of a large estate in Argentina, it opens the door to the past.
The Spanish Daughter delivers a dual timeline focusing on Rose’s visit to the estate in the present, alternating with Valentina Santiago’s life in 1930. Author Soraya Lane creates an engaging, although somewhat predictable storyline full of love and loss.
Rose is at a crossroads in her life, which is common for caregivers who experience loss. She has no love life and isn’t certain she wants to return to her job. She’s understandably reluctant to embrace the inheritance, especially since her grandmother was adopted and didn’t know her birth mother.
That story unfolds as Valentina falls in love, only to have her life destroyed by vengeful relatives. This aspect of the story was heartbreaking.
However, love gets a second chance when Rose meets Benjamin, whose ties to the estate provide clues to the past. Rose will need to decide what kind of future she wants.
The Spanish Daughter highlights the power of love and loss in a multi-generational story.
Soraya Lane graduated with a law degree before realising that law wasn’t the career for her and that her future was in writing. She is the author of historical and contemporary women’s fiction, including the #1 Kindle bestselling novels The Last Correspondent and The Secrets We Left Behind.
Soraya lives on a small farm in her native New Zealand with her husband, their two young sons and a collection of four legged friends. When she’s not writing, she loves to be outside playing make-believe with her children or snuggled up inside reading.
