The Chevalier: The Morland Dynasty, Book 7
By (Author) Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
3rd November 1993
3rd November 1994
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
416
Width 108mm, Height 178mm, Spine 32mm
260g
1689: the Resoration enabled the Morland family to restore their own fortune, but now the Jacobite rebellion brings another threat to their security.
Annuciata Morland, fiercely loyal to the Stuart cause, follows her beloved king, James II, into exile. She leaves her gentle grandson, Matt, to oversee Morland Place in her absence. Without her wise presence, Matt finds himself in an arranged marriage to India Neville and at the mercy of a woman as heartless as she is beautiful. After a lonely and sheltered life he lurches between the exquisite pain of love and the torment of deep despair.When James III - the Chevalier - returns to claim the Stuart throne, the Morlands are reunited in one country. Death and defeat threaten them, but their loves and loyalty prove stronger than kingly ambitions.Cynthia Harrod-Eagles won the Young Writers Award with her first novel, THE WAITING GAME. She has written over fifty books, including twenty-eithe volumes of the Morland Dynasty and the acclaimed mystery series features Inspector Bill Slider.