A Crowning Mercy
English
By (author): Bernard Cornwell Susan Kells Susannah Kells
In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy
On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger.
But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew.
One of four intricately wrought seals each holding a secret within it can, when combined with the other three, bring great wealth and power. This power is her true inheritance but its a perilous legacy others will kill for
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