ASIN: B07PVVSJ6H
Publisher: Newmore Publishing
Pages: 314
1680s England is on the brink.Thomas and Grace Davenport are the wilful youngest children from a strict puritanical Dorset family who are torn apart by the death of their mother.The ambitious Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son to the old King, Charles II, lands with a small force in Dorset, seeking to depose his staunch Catholic uncle, James II, for fear of him re-establishing a Catholic dynasty in a precarious Protestant country.Thomas and Grace meet Henry, the heir to the corrupt Earl of Sherborne, who falls deeply in love with Grace but a Catholic nobleman is forbidden to marry a Puritan. Their budding relationship is ripped apart when Henry is forced to take up arms to join the fight against Monmouth.Lady Merriman, a vivacious woman with a tragic secret that would threaten the foundations of the Earldom, becomes a surrogate mother to Thomas and Grace but goes missing in ...
