[PDF] The Vagabond Duchess eBook

Author : Claire Thornton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472040945

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He'd promised to return But Jack Bow is dead. And Temperance Challinor's quietly respectable life is changed forever.

Author : Anne Herries
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459225279

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Betrayed! Sir Robert came in peace to claim his lady honorably. But Melissa denied their love, and her father had him whipped from the house. Banished! Forbidden to return, Rob seeks his fortune in the wars, determined to forget the woman who tricked him. Back—for his revenge! As the Wars of the Roses ravage England, Melissa falls into Rob’s power and declares she knew nothing of his punishment. He should not trust her—but can he resist such vulnerable, innocent beauty?

Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0297870866

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The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of WEDLOCK, THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissolute fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins. Who is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist? Or is it a political assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was, after all, a key player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, as his brother Charles II's successor. Nigel Pickford creates a world of tension and insecurity, of constant plotting and counter-plotting and of rabid anti-Catholicism, where massive street demonstrations and public Papal burnings are weekly events. The action moves from the great landed estates of Syon and Petworth to the cheap taverns and brothels of London, and finally to Newgate and the gallows - the sporting spectacle of the day. In the process, the book gives us a vivid and deeply researched portrait of Restoration society.

Author : Ron Rundle
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
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What is the hardest part about growing up? Darly was discovering that is a question with several possible answers. Before you read the book, think about it. See if your ideas match what Darly has to go through.