The prequel to Koen's "Through a Glass Darkly," this is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of 17th-century England as a young woman risks everything for pride and status in an era in which women were afforded little of either.
Two years after the South Sea Bubble of 1719, the English aristocracy still reels from financial loss and there are Jacobite threats against the Hanoverian throne. It is a world of intrigue, unrest, duelling and scandal, and in its midst is the beautiful Barbara Montgeoffrey, Countess Devane.
Barbara Alderley comes from provincial Tamworth to the elegant intrigue of London society and the opulent decadence of the 18th-century French court. She is to marry Roger Montgeoffry, the handsome Earl of Devane, until a devastating secret from his past shatters her trust to fragments.
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