Maria McCann Knihy

Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a 'little weakness' - has recently married the charismatic Edward. But Edward has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems. In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia's - but she too discovers that she's been lied to. As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events.

Set in 1640s England. Royalist manservant Jacob Cullen is a man who must step outside the law, outside the state and outside the established order of things for his only prospect of happiness.

A novel of secrets and revenge within a seventeenth-century English family. Under the pretence of his cider business, Jonathan visits his newly widowed aunt and there meets her unruly servant girl, Tamar, who soon reveals that she has secrets of her own...

Der junge Jacob Cullen, ein Anhänger Cromwells, muss Frondienste leisten, um die Schulden seines Vaters abzutragen. Vor seiner Hochzeit mit Caro wird er des Mordes an einem Königstreuen beschuldigt und muss fliehen. Ein spannender Roman über Leidenschaft und Abenteuer im Englischen Bürgerkrieg.