The Fatal Key
By (Author) Megan Chance
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
31st December 1999
New edition
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
480
Width 112mm, Height 30mm, Spine 176mm
260g
A powerful drama set around the Salem witch trials of 1692. When Susannah arrives from England to care for her motherless nieces, she falls passionately in love with Lucas, their father, a devout Puritan. But their affair sets in motion a chain of events that ultimately finds Susannah accused of witchcraft by her troubled niece Charity and her friends and when Lucas tries to clear her name, he is then imprisoned too. Luckily Lucas is able to escape but will Susannah herself still be alive when the hysteria finally evaporates and normal life resumes
A former television news photographer, Megan Chance is the author of eight popular romantic novels, and has won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award for excellence in Romantic Fiction. She lives near Seattle with her husband - a criminal defense attorney and writer - her young daughters, and two dogs.