Treason's Gift (Wintercombe Series Book 4)

Treason's Gift (Wintercombe Series Book 4)

<b>Summer 1686. Wintercombe.<br /><br />Louise and Alex mourn the death of their baby son. </b><br /><br />In the aftermath of tragedy, grief and guilt cast their once happy marriage onto rocks.<br /><br />Louise sinks into depression and Alex seeks comfort in the arms of another woman.<br /><br />Then Alex does the unthinkable and Louise can no longer bear the sight of him.<br /><br />Alex finds refuge and revolutionary intrigue in Holland while his cousin Charles, long desirous of Louise and the family home, returns from exile, intent on fulfilling his ambition at last: to be master of Wintercombe.<br /><br />All affairs of the heart, however, are caught up in a larger swirl of events as James II is about to be dethroned and as anti-Catholic, nationalist sentiment swells--a movement clandestinely aided by Alexander and a courtier who proposes to Alexander’s plain-looking and plain-spoken spinster sister Phoebe.<br /><br />The final installment of the <em>Wintercombe</em> saga.<br /><br /><h2>Praise for <em>Treason’s Gift </em></h2><br /><br />‘An outstanding historical novelist, Belle now adds another volume to her impressively researched and crafted series set during the English Civil Wars.’ – <em><b>Publishers Weekly</b></em><br /><br />‘A richly detailed and delightful family chronicle, quickening into an unputdownable adventure story’ – <b>Rosemary Sutcliff</b><br /><br />‘A restful cruise for the St. Barbe faithful and period-romance insatiables.’ – <b><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></b><br /><br />‘A gifted storyteller…who can conjure up a period of history so that we can smell, hear and see it’ – <b>Sarah Harrison, author of <em>The Flowers of the Field</em></b><br /><br /><b>Pamela Belle</b> was born and bred in Suffolk, the daughter of a local prep school headmaster. She went to the University of Sussex, and went on to become a primary school teacher. She is the author of seven previous novels including the <em>Wintercombe</em> series and the <em>Moon in the Water</em> series. <br />