Two Daughters Rode In. Neither Was Mine

Synopsis

At Kentucky horse king Hank's sixty-second birthday banquet, a white horse knocked over a flower stand, and a mud-covered woman publicly claimed him as her father — claiming to be Tess, the daughter who had been missing for three years. But the DNA test Hank secretly had done showed that neither the woman who had burst in nor the one at home was his daughter. The real Tess had been put in a sack and sunk in the river by her son-in-law Wade three years earlier, then set free by a boatman and rescued by an elderly couple by the river. She had hidden for three years and woven a net: letting the stand-in Nell go home to protect her father, spreading word that a will was about to be made, forcing Wade to push out the plastic-surgery impostor, asking three questions in public at the signing banquet, the real daughter riding home, and the boatman testifying in court. The scumbag went to prison, the stand-in took the family name, and the horse doctor proposed. The next year on his birthday, tw