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A young woman tries to move beyond her shadowed legacy, but finds her heart divided and her loyalty challenged Clarissa Field never knew her mother, but hears whispers that she was a notorious "femme fatale." Unknowingly, the girl follows her mother's passionate path and loses her heart to Jacobite rebel Dickon Frenshaw. But 1715 England is a dangerous place to be a young woman in love. Dickon is caught and exiled to Virginia, and Clarissa is married off to rakish soldier Lance Clavering. Caught between two men, Clarissa must navigate a hotbed of scandal, treachery, and betrayal. As civil strife threatens to ignite revolution, Clarissa is accused of being a spy. She faces a terrible choice, and must transform her life to prepare her daughter, Zipporah, for her legacy.
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The Drop of the Dice, Phillipa Carr
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1981
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- Titul
- The Drop of the Dice
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Phillipa Carr
- Vydavatel
- Fontana Press
- Rok vydání
- 1981
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0006165893
- ISBN13
- 9780006165897
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Detektivky & Thriller, Romantika, Historické romány, Detektivky, Britská literatura, Historické romance
- Původní název
- Drop of the dice
- Hodnocení
- 4 z 5
- Anotace
- A young woman tries to move beyond her shadowed legacy, but finds her heart divided and her loyalty challenged Clarissa Field never knew her mother, but hears whispers that she was a notorious "femme fatale." Unknowingly, the girl follows her mother's passionate path and loses her heart to Jacobite rebel Dickon Frenshaw. But 1715 England is a dangerous place to be a young woman in love. Dickon is caught and exiled to Virginia, and Clarissa is married off to rakish soldier Lance Clavering. Caught between two men, Clarissa must navigate a hotbed of scandal, treachery, and betrayal. As civil strife threatens to ignite revolution, Clarissa is accused of being a spy. She faces a terrible choice, and must transform her life to prepare her daughter, Zipporah, for her legacy.