Gregory Philippa
Gregory Philippa - Dark Tides A Novel - Paperback
Gregory Philippa - Dark Tides A Novel - Paperback
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Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands the searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages (People) returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London Venice and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy nobleman seeking the lover he deserted twenty - one years earlier. Now James Avery has everything to offer: a fortune a title and the favor of the newly restored King Charles II. He believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing he cannot buy his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother - in - law and tells her of the death of Rob Alinor's son drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Meanwhile Alinor's brother Ned in faraway New England is making a life for himself between in the narrowing space between the jarring worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move towards inevitable war. Alinor writes to him that she knows without doubt that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. But how can she prove it? Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London in the golden streets of Venice and on the tensely contested frontier of early America this is a novel of greed and desire: for love for wealth for a child and for home.
Title: Dark Tides A Novel
Author(s): Gregory Philippa
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781501187193
Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/8/2021
Series: The Fairmile Series
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands the searing portrait of a woman that resonates across the ages (People) returns with an evocative historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London Venice and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy nobleman seeking the lover he deserted twenty - one years earlier. Now James Avery has everything to offer: a fortune a title and the favor of the newly restored King Charles II. He believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing he cannot buy his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother - in - law and tells her of the death of Rob Alinor's son drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Meanwhile Alinor's brother Ned in faraway New England is making a life for himself between in the narrowing space between the jarring worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move towards inevitable war. Alinor writes to him that she knows without doubt that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. But how can she prove it? Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London in the golden streets of Venice and on the tensely contested frontier of early America this is a novel of greed and desire: for love for wealth for a child and for home.
Title: Dark Tides A Novel
Author(s): Gregory Philippa
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781501187193
Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/8/2021
Series: The Fairmile Series
Category: Historical Fiction
