Unholy love

the long version

Forced by her tyrannical father to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her grandfather's Will, Philippa Cranley knows nothing but cruelty from Archer Cranley and his vicious sister, Edna. Philippa's love for her frail mother keeps her enslaved, dressed in men's clothing and known as Philip. Archer Cranley forces 'Philip' to do a stint in the glassworks, a raging inferno of deprivation and danger. Joshua Fairley befriends the gentle 'lad' but finds his feelings for Philip are more than pity, and is tormented by the thought that he is being tempted into an unholy love ...