A Crowning Mercy - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard; Kells, Susannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060725648 ISBN 13: 9780060725648

Publisher: Harper Torch, 2004

Synopsis

Secretly yearning to escape the pious tyranny of her father, Dorcas Slythe, a rebellious young Puritan woman, gets her chance when she encounters Toby Lazender, the heir to a powerful royalist family, who introduces her not only to an unexpected passion but also to a mysterious gold sea that could unlock the secret of a vast fortune, in a novel set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England. Original.

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Review:

‘A virtuoso of historical fiction’ Sunday Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

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, who longs to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father.

The chance appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist family. It is he who renames her "Campion," awakening her to a bold, hitherto unknown passion . . . and to a mysterious and perilous destiny. With the discovery of an intricately wrought gold seal—one of four that, when joined, will reveal a great secret and uncover an enormous fortune—Campion's quest begins.

Love, riches, and redemption await her at the end of her perilous adventure. Or death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Torch
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060725648
• ISBN 13: 9780060725648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 530