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The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London. She aches to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father--and the opportunity appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist family, who awakens her to her passionate destiny. Her adventure truly begins with the discovery of an intricately wrought gold seal--one of four that, when joined, will reveal a great secret. Suddenly grave danger lies before her--not from Cromwell's advancing armies, but from relentless enemies who covet the great treasure to which she now holds the key.
BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series, which includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and, most recently, The Empty Throne, and which serves as the basis for the hit television series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR004270155
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This book has been read, minor wear to covers and dust cover, some markings and stamps inner pages as former library book. Spine intact, no creases. "A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. In mid seventeenth-century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl - illicitly bathing in a stream - first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion and that's what she longed to be, then and forever. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father - a pendant made of gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved with an axe and the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the unbearable, worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden meeting, she takes this and the delicate lace gloves with her, and hopes to find her father, and her lover. There are four of these intricately wrought seals - each owned by a stranger, each holding a secret within. And when all four seals are united, then the holder will have access to great wealth and power. That is Campion's inheritance. But to claim this and find again her summer love, she must follow the course her father's legacy charts for her." Good Reads "Susannah Kells is a pseudonym for Judy Cornwell, wife of Bernard Cornwell" Good Reads . Seller Inventory # 163-2023
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red Boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice square binding. Pages are clean with a bit of toning to the page edges. Dust jacket is not clipped. A hard to find copy of the first of Bernard Cornwell's books published under the Pseudonym Susannah Kells. Seller Inventory # 8036
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Red Boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice square binding. Pages are clean. Dustjacket is not clipped. A hard to find copy of the first of Bernard Cornwells books published under the Pseudonym Susannah Kells. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Seller Inventory # 8828