Her Father’s Daughter

The story begins in Portugal. Catherine is watching the rabalos the port wine lodges racing on the river when a shot rings out. Her mother is dead and it’s all the fault of her father for marrying another woman.
She’s shipped off up into the mountains to stay with a strange aunt who converses with wolves. On becoming an adult her father regards her as a pawn to be bargained as part of his business.
Unfortunately for him he has no inkling that there is as much of him in her as there is of her mother and she’s far more defiant than he’d anticipated.