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Scandalizing her 17th-century Puritan community with her scientific experiments of butterflies that are believed by others to be the souls of the dead, nobleman's daughter Eleanor pursues a passionate desire to find an all-consuming love and sense of self-worth.

Lady of the Butterflies

It was Charles I's love for his Queen Henrietta Maria which plummeted England into the darkness of the Civil Wars, but it was the love and loyalty of another man that sustained her through days of betrayal, destitution and death. Tall and brave, Harry Jermyn is captivated by the witty French princess, just fourteen years old when she sails with him to Dover, queen of a land she has never seen, of a people whose language she cannot speak, who despise her for her faith -- and wife of a king she has never met. Charles grows to love her but rebellion and the threat of execution force her into exile and into the arms of Harry, who risks his life for her sake. Together they work for the royalist cause, pawning the crown jewels, securing men and arms and returning to England to lead an army south. As England is torn apart, Henrietta's heart is torn between the two men she loves, between duty and illicit passion. The subject of dangerous gossip and public scandal, she is powerless to calm the storm which will lead to tragedy.

Cavalier Queen

While investigating the disappearance of a beautiful young woman, ambitious twenty-eight-year-old genealogist Natasha Blake uncovers a link to Lizzie Siddal, the haunting Pre-Raphaelite artist, model, and wife of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose own life had been cut short by an overdose of laudanum. Reprint.

A Genealogical Mystery

Pale as the Dead

Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history - and for butterflies in particular. Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love - and mortal peril.

Rebel Heiress

While investigating the disappearance of Bethany, a beautiful young woman, ambitious twenty-eight-year-old genealogist Natasha Blake uncovers a link to Lizzie Siddal, the haunting Pre-Raphaelite artist, model, and wife of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose own life had been cut short by an overdose of laudanum. A first novel.

In a tradition which stretches from Daphne du Maurier's The King's General to Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and Alison Weir's Innocent Traitor, this glorious historical novel is based on the life of the great seventeenth-century entomologist, Eleanor Glanville.

______________________ She was the Princess Diana of her day. She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and decorated. Instead, Princess Henrietta Maria of France became caught up in the Civil War, one of the greatest cataclysms in English history. Swept from her life of luxury into the squalid brutality of battle and the loneliness of exile, her heart was torn by the two men she loved - her husband, tragic Charles I and charismatic Harry Jermyn, who designed and built most of London's West End, including the street which bears his name. This is their story.

La bambina che amava la morte

From the award-wining author of 'Lady of the Butterflies, ' 'Bloodline' and 'Pales as the Dead.' * A missing singer * A doomed love story * A family split by secrets & lies 1967: Enigmatic young folk singer Molly Marrison disappears on the cusp of fame. 2002: Silva is working as a housemaid at Chatsworth House when her father suddenly dies, leaving her with one instruction - find Molly. The only clue is a haunting song, centuries old, that Molly recorded before she vanished. Silva needs the help of song collector, Robbie Nightingale. Silva and Robbi were teenage sweethearts, but they've not spoken for decades. If they try to find Molly, what else will they discover? For Molly is not the only girl to have disappeared. Silva's mother, Sukey, vanished when Silva was a child, leaving her with scars that Robbie once tried but failed to heal.

The Keeper of Songs

Fletcher Christian and Isabella Curwen are first cousins who grow up together in the Lake District; kindred spirits who, like Heathcliff and Cathy, are bound to fall in love. But Isabella is promised to another cousin, John, and Fletcher, dashing though he is, comes from the poor side of the family. When Isabella, an only child and heir to the Curwen fortune, inherits and John becomes her guardian, he and her relations conspire to prevent her and Fletcher's union. Isabella marries John; Fletcher joins the Navy and later signs on for the Bounty voyage. And the rest, you might think, is history. In fact, it is only the first act in the drama of Fletcher and Isabella ...

Isabella

Die Vergangenheit ist voller Geheimnisse. Manche davon sind tödlich. Einen Stammbaum erstellen: Eigentlich ein ganz normaler Auftrag für die Familienforscherin Natasha Blake. Doch dann wird ihr Auftraggeber Charles Seagrove ermordet. Gerade als Natasha auf die Geschichte zweier «Landgirls» stößt, die im Krieg auf Seagroves Landgut gearbeitet haben. Beide waren schwanger, beide sind damals spurlos verschwunden ... «So rot wie Blut» ist der erste Kriminalroman mit der Familienforscherin Natasha Blake, die in einem alten Cottage in Snowshill in den Cotswolds lebt.

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