Crowning Mercy

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A highly entertaining wonderfully colourful story now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. In mid seventeenth-century England the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside one sunlit afternoon a young girl -- illicitly bathing in a stream -- first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas but he called her Campion & thats what she longed to be then & forever. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father -- a pendant made from gold banded by tiny glowing stones & at its base was a seal engraved with an axe & the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the unbearable worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden meeting she takes this & the delicate lace gloves with her & hopes to find her father & her lover. There are four of these intricately wrought seals -- each owned by a stranger each holding a secret within. & when all four seals are united then the holder will have access to great wealth & power. That is Campions inheritance. But to claim this & find again her summer love she must follow the course her fathers legacy charts for her. It is a road full of both peril & enchantment. A Crowning Mercy was first published in 1983 under the name Susannah Kells. It has been out of print for 10 years. Harper Collins are delighted to be able to re-publish it.