The Vanished Days: 'An engrossing and deeply romantic novel' RACHEL HORE

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A sweeping love story set against the Jacobite revolution from much-loved author Susanna Kearsley

There are many who believe they know what happened, but they do not know the whole of it. The rumours spread, and grow, and take their hold, and so to end them I have been persuaded now to take my pen in hand and tell the story as it should be told

Autumn, 1707. Old enemies from the Highlands to the Borders are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England, the French are preparing to launch an invasion to carry the young exiled Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh the streets are filled with discontent and danger.

Queen Annes commissioners, seeking to calm the situation, have begun settling the losses and wages owed to those Scots who took part in the disastrous Darien expedition eight years earlier.

When Lily, the young widow of a Darien sailor, comes forward to collect her husbands wages, her claim is challenged, and one of the men whos assigned to examine her has only days to decide if shes honest, or if his own feelings are making him blind to the truth, and if hes being used as a pawn in an even more treacherous game.

A story of intrigue, adventure, endurance, romanceand the courage to hope.

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New York Times,USATODAY,andGlobe and Mailbestselling authorSusannaKearsleyis a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in twin-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels are published in translation in more than twenty-fivecountries. She lives near Toronto. Visit her at SusannaKearsley.com or follow her on Twitter@SusannaKearsley.