Dark Angels: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly,Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance,danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England.

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning toEngland after a messy scandal forced her to flee to Louis XIV’s France, Alice is anxious tore-establish herself by regaining her former position as a maidof honor to Charles II’s queen and marrying the most celebrated duke of theRestoration.

But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. Since the Restoration,old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is movingto divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn’t mind seeing dead. Alice, loyalonly to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who mightbe making sinister plans—and if her own father is one of them.

When a member ofthe royal family dies unexpectedly, the stakes are Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is—and isn’t—true to the queen, she learnsof shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man who she may fall inlove with—and who could spoil all of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a knownpoison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety ofthe king himself seems uncertain. Secret plots are at play, and war is on the horizon—butwill it be with the Dutch or the French? And has King Charles himself betrayed hiscountry for greed?

Unforgettable in its dramaticforce, here is a novel of love andpolitics, of romance and betrayal, of power andsuccession—and of aresourceful young woman who risks everything for pride and statusinan era in which women were afforded little of either.