Imagine that your mother dies, and soon afterward, your father adds a stepmother and five new siblings to the household. What would you do? This story is what happened at the turn of the 20th century, when young Ernest Woodward's cushy London lifestyle crashes to a halt with the untimely passing of his mother. The elder Mr. Woodward marries a woman with five children of her own, and Ernest mistakenly believes that he is fortunate to gain a loving family. As a busy shipping business executive, Mr. Woodward often travels, leaving Ernest all too frequently in the care of the cruel Mrs. Woodward. Recognizing that he is the sole obstacle to his stepmother's plans to inherit Mr. Woodward's substantive estate for her own children, at the age of seventeen, Ernest Woodward-my grandfather-boards a freighter in London and works his way across the Atlantic as a cook's helper. Undeterred by his losses in England, Ernest embraces his new homeland by marrying a young lady in Ohio, building a thriving cattle business, and raising a large, close family with nine children. Upon his return to London, Ernest discovers that Mrs. Woodward is actively plotting to gain control of his father's shipping business for herself. Ernest is no longer a young child at the mercy of this selfish woman, but a seasoned and successful businessman with a family of his own. How will he turn the tables on his nemesis, and cleverly right the wrongs that have long been planned by the conniving Mrs. Woodward and her children?Grab your copy now to find out!