The Marriage Contract

An abusive father, a lost love, and an arranged marriage. Can Eliza find the strength she needs to live life on her own terms in a world dictated by men? Set in an unnamed market town in central England in the reign of Elizabeth I, this is the story of Eliza, a merchant's daughter who will not conform to the expectations of her bullying father. When her romance with a farmhand is discovered, she has no choice but to give in to her father's wishes and marry a man that he has picked for her. But will she ever find her first love again? Or does time change everything and enable Eliza to see that she might want something different from her life? This is a powerful story of love and desire, status and money, and the things people forsake to obtain them. But ultimately this story is about the strength and fortitude of women defining themselves within the patriarchal society of Tudor England.