"Erema; Or, My Father's Sin" is a three-volume novel that features the story of a teenage girl named Erema. Erema's father ran away from England, having been accused of a murder he did not commit. The teenage girl went through childhood in exile with her father, and now as a teenager, the story begins in California in the 1850s.

The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Erema - My Father's Sin (1877), is a romantic novel by R.D. Blackmore. There is a daughter's quest to clear her father's reputation from the accusation of parricide. Though the chief characters are English and Scottish, the scene is set down...