Banishment

Banishment

<b>‘Just the ticket for your holiday reading’ - <em>The Independent</em></b><br /><br /><br /><br />Nichola Hall is acclaimed actress and an accomplished collector of men.<br /><br /><br /><br />But she also has an infamous reputation. <br /><br /><br /><br />Sensual, lithe and utterly sexy, Nichola is a hedonist without remorse - or friends. <br /><br /><br /><br />So when she wakes up from an experiment in hypnosis to find herself in the body of Arabella, beautiful step-daughter of the unappealing Sir Denzil Loxley, she is hardly equipped for life in the seventeenth century.<br /><br /><br /><br />Shocked to discover she has an attractive Parliamentarian lover and a new-born child, and is in the camp of the losing Royalists, Nichola's main objective is to get back to her own time. <br /><br /><br /><br />Yet she can hardly explain what has happened without risking being accused of witchcraft. <br /><br /><br /><br />And anyway, there is a more immediate problem to confront: the lecherous attentions of Sir Denzil.<br /><br /><br /><br />Rescued by one of the King's noblemen, the dashing Lord Joscelin Attwood, Nichola suddenly realises she is rather enjoying playing the part of Arabella. <br /><br /><br /><br />Then slowly, insidiously, she finds that the part is becoming more real than her own identity. <br /><br /><br /><br />And it dawns on her that she is no longer acting. <br /><br /><br /><br />The old heartless Nichola Hall has actually fallen in love. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>And she is ready to face the dangerous wiles of her step-daughter, to deny herself the delights of Prince Rupert and to brave the bloody fighting for the sake of a loved one who has brought her back across the centuries…</h2> <br /><br /><br /><br />Romantic, raunchy and intriguing, <em>Banishment</em> is a compelling story set against the evocative, wonderfully crafted backdrop of the Civil War.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Deryn Lake</b> started to write stories at the age of five then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children and lives in Mayfield, Sussex, with two large cats. She is also the author of <em>Fortune’s Soldier</em>, <em>Sutton Place</em>, <em>To Sleep No More</em>, <em>The King’s Women</em> and <em>Pour The Dark Wine</em>. <br /><br />