G340 Book Review of The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden
Name of Book: The Lost Duchess Author: Jenny Barden ISBN: 978-0-091949-67-9 Publisher: Ebury Press Type of book: 1586-1587, lady-in-waiting, Queen Elizabeth I, travels, North America, American Indian tribes, the lost colony, secrets, romance, love Year it was published: 2013 Summary: An epic Elizabethan adventure with a thriller pace and a high tension love story that moves from the palaces of England to the savage wilderness of the New World. Emme Fifield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the new America where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset. Emme joins Kit Doonan's rag-tag band of idealists, desperados and misfits bound for Virginia. But such a voyage will be far from easy and Emme finds her attraction to the mysterious Doonan inconvenient to say the least. As for Kit, the ...