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Susanna Pleydell is a charming young innocent who has a very special power – a gift for healing – and when she marries the philanderer, Aubrey St Clare, she expects to live happily ever after. Until she discovers that the man she has married has a sinister, dark secret.
When Susanna meets with the enigmatic Dr Damien further disaster strikes. And it isn't until she travels to the dreaming domes and spires of exotic Constantinople and the grim hospital wards of Scutari that she comes face to face with her destiny and learns the truth about Dr Damien...
Born Eleanor Alice Burford, Victoria Holt was one of Britain's most prolific writers of historical romance. Always determined to keep her birth date and private life a closely guarded secret Holt wrote under many pseudonyms - Jean Plaidy was one of her most popular, and was created when she lived near Plaidy Beach in Cornwall. Having written over ninety historical romances, she then began a new series of Gothic romances, the first of which, Mistress of Mellyn, appeared in 1961.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 416 pages. Text tannedWith the outbreak of the Crimean War, S usanna Pleydell journeys to the Middle East to work as a nurse wi th the legendary Florence Nightingale but is haunted by a dark se cret from her past. Seller Inventory # 2729t