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Aired at ten with the loss of her father, Thomazin Heron is sent to Sir Simon Heron’s household, where she falls in love with his son, Francis. After Francis’s presumed death, she is bound to marry her cousin, Sir Dominic Drakelon, a match determined before her birth. Years later, when the truth emerges that Francis is alive, Thomazin abandons her newborn and husband to seek him amid the turmoil of Montrose’s Scottish campaign. Alongside her friend Grainne Sewell and Grainne’s children, she endures a perilous journey that tests loyalty, love, and the stubborn chains of fate during the civil war era.
First publish date: 1984
Genre: Historical Fiction/Medieval Historical Fiction
Authors: Pamela Belle
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