The Orphan of the Rain

<p>On a storm-swept night in Paris a dying mother's whisper fades beneath the sound of rain.<br>When dawn comes twenty-year-old Sophia stands alone - orphaned penniless and heartbroken. The rain becomes her only companion and witness to her sorrow.</p><p>A stranger soon arrives: Philip her long-lost uncle who offers her shelter in his country estate far from the gray streets of the city. With nothing left to hold her in Paris Sophia follows him - carrying only her mother's scarf her memories and a fragile hope for peace.</p><p>But the countryside holds its own storms. In her uncle's grand home Sophia encounters Eleanor a proud and controlling matriarch who sees her as an intruder and Emma a beautiful but vain cousin promised to Eleanor's son Gabriel. When Gabriel returns from his travels his gentle soul and restless heart are drawn to Sophia's quiet grace - and love begins to bloom where it should not.</p><p>What follows is a tender and tragic struggle between love and duty truth and reputation.<br>Cruel whispers turn the household against Sophia and jealousy becomes a weapon.<br>Torn between her heart and her conscience Sophia must choose whether to fight for a forbidden love or surrender to silence and disappear from the world that has never been kind to her.</p>