The sin and the sinners

the long version

"The problem of an adopted child is seldom an easy one. Victor Carnes, intelligent man though he was, found it too much for him, to the point where the love of his own daughter became the only antidote to lack of sympathy with his adopted son. That set his son, Danny, on the path that finally brought Victor's chance of a knighthood into jeopardy, but his daughter, Beris, has a love for her brother which is of a more certain quality. She contrives both to redeem her brother in the eyes of the world and at the same time to bring enlightenment to her father ..."--Global Books in Print.