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Welcome to Day #9 of the Blog Tour of — Betrayal #histfictioneers #Betrayal #HistoricalFiction #CoffeePotBookClub @HistFictioneers @coloursofunison

  

BETRAYAL
BY JUDITH ARNOPP, CRYSSA BAZOS, ANNA BELFRAGE, DEREK BIRKS,HELEN HOLLICK, AMY MARONEY, ALISON MORTON, CHARLENE NEWCOMB, TONY RICHES, MERCEDES ROCHELLE, ELIZABETH ST. JOHN, ANNIE WHITEHEAD

NOVEMBER 17TH - JANUARY 19TH

Publication Date: November 17, 2020

Publisher: Historical Fictioneers

Page Length: 486

Genre: Historical Fiction

Betrayal, treachery, treason, deceit, perfidy—all names for the calculated violation of trust. And it’s been rife since humans trod the earth. A promise broken A mission betrayed A lover’s desertion A parent’s deception An unwitting act of treason Betrayal by comrades Betrayal by friends Could you resist the forces of misplaced loyalty, power hunger, emotional blackmail, or plain greed? Is there ever redemption, or will the destruction visit future generations and even alter history? These questions are still with us today. Read twelve tales by twelve accomplished writers who explore these historical yet timeless challenges from post Roman Britain to the present day.

Head on over to M J Porter's Official Blog to find an exclusive author interview with all the authors of this fabulous book!
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Have a sneak-peek between the covers of Issac Samuel Miller's fabulous book – Just Get Up #SelfHelp #Spiritual @justgetup

 

Publication Date: 8/31/2019Publisher: KoehlerbooksPage Length: 238Genre:  Self-help/spiritual
Abandoned by his father at the age of seven, Isaac Miller embarks upon a thirteen-year journey to fight his way out of a life of crime, drugs, mediocrity, and poverty. Using his teenage imagination and work ethic as his guide, Isaac provides for his family, including his schizophrenic mother, and fights his way to becoming an entrepreneur at the age of seventeen. Through his story, Isaac demonstrates how you can start with nothing and still live your dreams. Just Get Up teaches you how to capture your own life's dreams through exposing your inner genius. 

MOST PEOPLE HAVE ASKED THESE questions at some point during their lives: “What are my talents and how do I discover my gifts?” “How can I become motivated?” and “How can I stop being a procrastinator?” It’s human nature to ponder these questions; however, you must identify your own true passions to unlock the secrets to these questions. Have you identified your most valuable gift and its connection to your purpose in life? It’s possible that you haven’t used all of your talents, or maybe you haven’t discovered the true potential of your inner genius. Just like a car, you have unique features and abilities, but in order to maximize the performance of your life’s vehicle, which represents you, you must investigate and challenge your abilities in order to identify the potential that is buried alive inside of you. You have a gift, and after you complete this necessary adventure with me, you will discover things about yourself that will literally make you unstoppable! 

You are privileged to be one of the approximately 7.7 billion people who are still alive on our planet! Out of these billions of people, what is your life’s role? Do you know? You must identify your life’s role in order to discover your gift of value. Your gift of value holds the key to discovering your true passions in life, and living your dreams!

Don’t make a settlement with your life by pursuing a life that’s not a part of your dreams. If you make a settlement with your life, it will produce a state of recurring discontentment, and feeling unfulfilled will often surface at the most inopportune times during your life. Living an unsatisfying life can easily be traced back to an individual’s failure to discover their life’s true identity. Remember, all of us have goals and dreams. In fact, without goals and dreams, our lives would be empty and depleted of the growth that’s needed for us to feel competent, and happy in our own skin. 

No human who has ever walked on this planet, has successfully mastered how to run away from the passions that constantly pull at our hearts. Remember this: “Success is an opportunist, and every time you’re reminded of the things that only you know and desire, whether you’re aware of it or not, your heart is beating to remind you to create an opportunity to wholeheartedly pursue your passions.” Look at it this way: there are over 7.7 billion channels for the universe to operate through. You may be wondering, what is your channel? 

You have something that you were born to do, and if you’re not tuned in to your channel, you will miss out on your life’s journey of discoveries. However, it’s important for you to know that no one can tell you what your channel should display because it is a personal discovery process. However, I can show you how to begin to tune in to your life’s channel. 

When your life’s channel is fully manifested, you will know! How will you know? It will lead to wealth, riches, happiness, fulfillment, inner security, joy, peace, love, confidence, greatness, wisdom, and rewarding relationships. How much you discover about your channel depends on how much time you spend watching it. Remember, there are twenty-four hours in a day, and the amount of time you spend tuned-in to your channel will dictate how much you discover about yourself. 

Our universe is like cable TV, and the universe provides us with a plethora of channels, so many that we could never watch them all! What channel is your life currently on? Is your life even turned on, or have you powered it off? If you’re spending large amounts of your time watching other peoples’ channels, please stop immediately! You have too much to learn about yourself. Your goal, moving forward, is to reactivate your life’s channel or upgrade your channel. You’re capable of adding new phenomenal episodes and stories to your life’s channel. Your life’s channel should reflect a legendary TV marathon! 

Not to sound harsh, but any one of the 7.7 billion TV series being aired today, can easily cease to exist at any moment. If your life’s journey ended today, would you be overwhelmingly satisfied with how far you’ve traveled in your life? Your life’s journey could come to an end within the next two minutes, two hours, two months, or two years. So, before your life airs the final episode, you owe it to yourself to manifest your inner genius, which will lead to your life being legendary!

Before you can fully explore the discoveries throughout your Just Get Up experience, it’s important for you to take a tour through my life’s journey to manifesting my geniuses. It’s imperative for you to digest the gems from my first three chapters before your journey intensifies. My experienced strategy of overcoming adversities has equipped me with the faculties that are needed to help you. Your adventure has begun, and I want to take this opportunity to thank you for tuning in to start my Just Get Up program.

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Isaac Samuel Miller is an American traditionally published nonfiction and fiction author. He’s the author of Just Get Up: And Manifest Your Inner Genius, The Music Within Your Heart, Against the Grain, and he has a collaborative book entitled, Experts & Influencers: The Leadership Edition. When Isaac turned eleven, he was determined to provide for his sick mom and to escape poverty, so he set out on a journey to fight his way to success. Eventually this led him to becoming an entrepreneur at seventeen-years of age. He has over fifteen-years of experience as an entrepreneur. Isaac works as a licensed strength & conditioning fitness trainer, sales coach, author, and self-development/business speaker. He has a bachelor's degree in Therapeutic Recreation & Leisure Studies along with a minor in Physical Education. He’s an active member in his community, he gives his time freely through preaching and delivering various Bible discourses as a Minister. He’s an award winning author of the following book awards: The Coffee Pot Book Club Self-help/Spiritual Gold Medal book of the year award for 2020, 2020 Dragonfly Book Award winner in self-development, and he received an official badge as a 2019 book award semi-finalist in the I & I nonfiction category for the Chanticleer Book Awards.
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Welcome to Day #6 of the blog tour for Beneath Black Clouds and White by Virginia Crow #HistoricalFiction #FrenchRevolution @DaysDyingGlory @m_morganauthor

 

4th January – 15th January 2021

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Publication Date: 11th April 2019Publisher: CrowvusPrint Length: 637 PagesGenre: Historical Fiction/Military Fiction/Family Saga
Despite adoring his family and enjoying frequenting gaming tables, Captain Josiah Tenterchilt’s true love is the British Army and he is committed to his duty. As such, he does not hesitate to answer the army’s call when King Louis XVI of France is executed.
Accompanied by his wife to Flanders, Josiah finds his path crosses with a man who could not be more different from him: an apprentice surgeon named Henry Fotherby. As these two men pursue their own actions, fate and the careful connivance of a mysterious individual will push them together for the rest of their lives.
But it is a tumultuous time, and the French revolutionaries are not the only ones who pose a threat. The two gentlemen must find their place in a world where the constraints of social class are inescapable, and ‘slavery or abolition’ are the words on everyone’s lips.
Beneath Black Clouds and White is the prequel to Day's Dying Glory, which was published by Crowvus in April 2017.
Head on over to Mary's Tavern for an exclusive sneak-peek between the covers of this fabulous book!
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Welcome to Day #6 of the blog tour for A Rooster for Asklepios (A Slave's Story Trilogy, Book 1) By Christopher D. Stanley #HistoricalFiction #BlogTour #CoffeePotBookClub @aslavesstory @tonyriches

  

January 4th – January 15th 2021
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Publication Date:  May 23rd 2020
Publisher: Amelia Books
Page Length: 522 pages Genre: Historical Fiction
Marcus, a slave in the household of Lucius Coelius Felix, enjoys a better life than most slaves (and many free citizens) as the secretary and accountant of a wealthy aristocrat.  His master is rising in the civic life of the Roman colony of Antioch-near-Pisidia (central Turkey), and his responsibilities and income are growing as well. If this continues, he could soon earn enough to buy his freedom, set up a small business, and even marry.  
Then misfortune strikes, and his master falls into a deep depression that is exacerbated by a nagging illness that his physician is unable to cure.  The future looks bleak until the physician receives a dream from the healing god Asklepios calling Lucius to travel hundreds of miles across western Asia Minor to his sanctuary at Pergamon for treatment and, he hopes, a cure. Accompanied by Marcus and his new wife Selena, Lucius embarks on a long and eventful journey in which both master and slave encounter people and ideas that challenge long-held beliefs about themselves, their society, and the world around them.  Values are questioned, loyalties tested, and identities transformed in a story that brings to life a corner of the Roman empire that has been neglected by previous storytellers.
Head on over to The Writing Desk to find an exclusive author interview with Christopher D. Stanley!
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Join #HistoricalFiction author, Clare Flynn, over on The Historical Fiction Blog where she is talking about The Forgotten Civil War #APainterinPenang #CoffeePotBookClub @clarefly @authorrochelle

 

January 4th – January 15th 2021

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Publication Date: 6th October 2020

Publisher: Cranbrook Press

Page Length: 362 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya where she was born. Expulsion from her Nairobi convent school offers a welcome escape – the chance to stay with her parents’ friends, Mary and Reggie Hyde-Underwood on their Penang rubber estate.

But this is 1948 and communist insurgents are embarking on a reign of terror in what becomes the Malayan Emergency. Jasmine goes through testing experiences – confronting heartache, a shocking past secret and danger. Throughout it all, the one constant in her life is her passion for painting.

From the international best-selling and award-winning author of The Pearl of Penang, this is a dramatic coming of age story, set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise torn apart by civil war.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Flynn is the author of twelve historical novels and a collection of short stories. A former International Marketing Director and strategic management consultant, she is now a full-time writer. 

Having lived and worked in London, Paris, Brussels, Milan and Sydney, home is now on the coast, in Sussex, England, where she can watch the sea from her windows. An avid traveller, her books are often set in exotic locations.

Clare is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of The Society of Authors, Novelists Inc (NINC), ALLi, the Historical Novel Society and the Romantic Novelists Association, where she serves on the committee as the Member Services Officer. When not writing, she loves to read, quilt, paint and play the piano. She continues to travel as widely and as far as possible all over the world.

Join Clare over on The Historical Fiction Blog where she is talking about The Forgotten Civil War.
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Welcome to Day #5 of the blog tour for Beneath Black Clouds and White by Virginia Crow #HistoricalFiction #FrenchRevolution @DaysDyingGlory @loup_dargent

  

4th January – 15th January 2021

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Publication Date: 11th April 2019Publisher: CrowvusPrint Length: 637 PagesGenre: Historical Fiction/Military Fiction/Family Saga
Despite adoring his family and enjoying frequenting gaming tables, Captain Josiah Tenterchilt’s true love is the British Army and he is committed to his duty. As such, he does not hesitate to answer the army’s call when King Louis XVI of France is executed.
Accompanied by his wife to Flanders, Josiah finds his path crosses with a man who could not be more different from him: an apprentice surgeon named Henry Fotherby. As these two men pursue their own actions, fate and the careful connivance of a mysterious individual will push them together for the rest of their lives.
But it is a tumultuous time, and the French revolutionaries are not the only ones who pose a threat. The two gentlemen must find their place in a world where the constraints of social class are inescapable, and ‘slavery or abolition’ are the words on everyone’s lips.
Beneath Black Clouds and White is the prequel to Day's Dying Glory, which was published by Crowvus in April 2017.
Check out LoupDargent.Info for a sneak-peek between the covers of this fabulous book!
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Welcome to Day #5 of the blog tour for A Rooster for Asklepios (A Slave's Story Trilogy, Book 1) By Christopher D. Stanley #HistoricalFiction #BlogTour #CoffeePotBookClub @aslavesstory @1BrookAllen

 

January 4th – January 15th 2021
Amazon UK • Amazon US • Amazon CA • Amazon AU 

Publication Date:  May 23rd 2020
Publisher: Amelia Books
Page Length: 522 pages Genre: Historical Fiction
Marcus, a slave in the household of Lucius Coelius Felix, enjoys a better life than most slaves (and many free citizens) as the secretary and accountant of a wealthy aristocrat.  His master is rising in the civic life of the Roman colony of Antioch-near-Pisidia (central Turkey), and his responsibilities and income are growing as well. If this continues, he could soon earn enough to buy his freedom, set up a small business, and even marry.  
Then misfortune strikes, and his master falls into a deep depression that is exacerbated by a nagging illness that his physician is unable to cure.  The future looks bleak until the physician receives a dream from the healing god Asklepios calling Lucius to travel hundreds of miles across western Asia Minor to his sanctuary at Pergamon for treatment and, he hopes, a cure. Accompanied by Marcus and his new wife Selena, Lucius embarks on a long and eventful journey in which both master and slave encounter people and ideas that challenge long-held beliefs about themselves, their society, and the world around them.  Values are questioned, loyalties tested, and identities transformed in a story that brings to life a corner of the Roman empire that has been neglected by previous storytellers.
Ever wondered who Asklepios was to the Greeks and Romans? Find out over on Brook’s Scrolls!
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Welcome to Day #5 of the blog tour for A Painter in Penang (Penang Series, Book 3) By Clare Flynn #HistoricalFiction #APainterinPenang #CoffeePotBookClub @clarefly @BritonandDane

 

January 4th – January 15th 2021

Amazon

Publication Date: 6th October 2020

Publisher: Cranbrook Press

Page Length: 362 Pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya where she was born. Expulsion from her Nairobi convent school offers a welcome escape – the chance to stay with her parents’ friends, Mary and Reggie Hyde-Underwood on their Penang rubber estate.

But this is 1948 and communist insurgents are embarking on a reign of terror in what becomes the Malayan Emergency. Jasmine goes through testing experiences – confronting heartache, a shocking past secret and danger. Throughout it all, the one constant in her life is her passion for painting.

From the international best-selling and award-winning author of The Pearl of Penang, this is a dramatic coming of age story, set against the backdrop of a tropical paradise torn apart by civil war.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Flynn is the author of twelve historical novels and a collection of short stories. A former International Marketing Director and strategic management consultant, she is now a full-time writer. 

Having lived and worked in London, Paris, Brussels, Milan and Sydney, home is now on the coast, in Sussex, England, where she can watch the sea from her windows. An avid traveller, her books are often set in exotic locations.

Clare is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of The Society of Authors, Novelists Inc (NINC), ALLi, the Historical Novel Society and the Romantic Novelists Association, where she serves on the committee as the Member Services Officer. When not writing, she loves to read, quilt, paint and play the piano. She continues to travel as widely and as far as possible all over the world.

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#BookReview — The Other Cipher: Soli Hansen Mysteries Book 2 by Heidi Eljarbo #HistoricalFiction #WW2 @HeidiEljarbo

 

Publication Date: 2 December 2020Publisher: Independently PublishedPage Length: 200 PagesGenre: Historical Mystery
In the captivating second book of the Soli Hansen Mysteries, two women—separated by more than three hundred years—are connected through their love of art.
1613. Fabiola Ruber is been wed to a man she does not know and must live in a country with a new language and different customs. The memories of a lost love in her hometown Malta haunt her, and she sets out to find an artist who can do her portrait and recapture the feelings she had when she once modeled for a renowned Italian master painter.
1944. Four years into World War II, art historian Soli Hansen works with the Norwegian resistance to locate significant artwork and safeguard the pieces from the Nazis. When she finds out the Germans are after a hidden baroque depiction of a seventeenth century woman, she must muster all her courage and skills to decipher encrypted codes and preserve the mysterious art before it’s too late.
Both women are determined to do what they can to bring healing and redemption to their otherwise ominous future. Through tangled, bewildering clues and an eye for detail, Soli’s bond to Fabiola grows closer by the day. She must find the missing painting before the enemy does.
Ranging from a privileged life in seventeenth century Antwerp to Oslo during the German occupation of the second world war, this dual timeline is a historical mystery thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.




"The Nazis have not stopped looting and stealing art, so we cannot quit doing what we can to preserve and protect precious objects. These items don’t belong to Hitler and the German Reich."
They plundered the cultural property of every nation they occupied. The National Gallery of Oslo, like the Louvre in France, had taken steps to hide their precious artefacts and priceless paintings. But there were many more still in private collections—private Jewish collections.
For art historian and proprietor of Holm’s Fine Art Shop, Soli Hansen is determined to stop some of these exquisite paintings falling into the enemy’s hands. When she hears that the Nazis are searching for a hidden baroque depiction of a seventeenth-century woman, she knows she must do everything in her power to find that painting before they do. But, to find the painting, she must first decipher an encrypted code, and that she cannot do without the help of the Resistance…
With a visceral understanding of the audience this story is intended for, Heidi Eljarbo has once again presented her readers with a book that has not only been meticulously researched but also one where the narrative is so utterly enthralling that I lost all sense of time. I was immersed in a world of espionage, where the heroes were ordinary people who found themselves in an unrecognisable dark world where the victors felt that it was their right to plunder the country for the spoils. Small the Resistance may be, but their hearts beat for their country, for their compatriots and for their common cause.
The readers are first introduced to Soli Hansen in Of Darkness and Light: A Soli Hansen Mystery Book 1. Soli is an art historian who, understandably, tries to stay under the radar of the occupying forces. It isn’t until her world, the ‘art world’, is threatened that she finds herself drawn into the dangerous underworld of the Resistance. The Other Cipher: Soli Hansen Mysteries Book 2 takes up where Book 1 left off, and once again the fate of a precious masterpiece, this time one painted by the famous Flemish Baroque artist, Peter Paul Rubens, is at stake. To discover the whereabouts of the painting, Soli must first decipher an encrypted code, which will reveal where the painting has been hidden by its Jewish owner just before the Nazis rounded up his family. I thought The Other Cipher: Soli Hansen Mysteries Book 2 was a gripping account of this era in history and it shines a light on the lengths the Resistance were prepared to go to and the risks they were willing to take to undermine and challenge the authority of the occupying forces. However, unlike many World War II novels where the Resistance is portrayed as a secret underground organisation that disrupts communication and aids the allied forces, this novel instead focuses on a small group of individuals who are determined to hide priceless works of art from the Nazis. And although there are hints of the lengths the Resistance are willing to go to save lives and to make things as difficult as they can for their enemies, this novel does not focus on such things, which I found rather refreshing. This is not the kind of story where you are going to need a box of tissues with you because there is simply no need for them. Eljarbo does depict the fear of discovery, but she also describes the excitement of the hunt, of solving the puzzle and finding the prize, which I thought made this book refreshingly good.
In this novel, Eljarbo explores the roles of women and children in the Resistance. Like Soli, I too was horrified at the notion that children were used to deliver newsletters and bulletins for the Resistance, especially when the punishment, if they were caught, was so severe. But, as this novel progresses, Eljarbo reminds her readers that this was a profoundly different time to the one we live in now, and that the spirit of a nation under the shadow of occupation beat not only in the hearts of young men but children, women and the elderly as well. This sense of nationality, of coming together, gave this story a somewhat hopeful feeling that if they all stick together, they would come through these dark days and know freedom once again.
Soli is a character that I have really come to care about. Her devotion, her love of art, and her determination to make sure it does not fall into the wrong hands make her very commendable. But she is also a woman who is trying to make sense of everything she has witnessed, and the things that she learns. Her deep friendship with Heddy and her growing attraction to Nikolai reminds the reader that Soli wants what everyone wants—to be accepted, and to love and be loved. I thought Soli’s depiction was absolutely fabulous and I am really enjoying watching this character grow and come into her own.
As I have already mentioned, the historical detailing has to be commended, and this novel is backed up by confident research. Eljarbo has certainly painted a crystalline portrait of a nation under occupation. She has also depicted the seemingly unbreakable spirit of its citizens. Alongside this, Eljarbo clearly demonstrates that she has an empathetic understanding of what being human is, and she portrays the two sides to human nature—the darkness and the light.
This story is told through two profoundly different timelines, and although most of the novel is based in the 1940s, Eljarbo does sweep her readers further back in time to the early 17th Century when Peter Paul Rubens picked up his brush and painted the picture that both the Nazis and the Resistance are looking for. I thought this dual-timeline worked well, and it helped the reader to understand the story behind the painting.
Although The Other Cipher: A Soli Hansen Mysteries Book 2 does stand firmly on its own two feet, I would recommend starting with Book 1 so that you learn the background of the characters you encounter in this novel.
If you are looking for a gentle introduction to World War II novels that focus on the Resistance, then I think that A Soli Hansen Mysteries would be a fabulous series to start with. I, for one, am looking forward to reading the next book in this beguiling series.
I Highly Recommend.
Review by Mary Anne YardeThe Coffee Pot Book Club.

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Heidi Eljarbo


Heidi Eljarbo is the bestselling author of historical fiction and mysteries filled with courageous and good characters that are easy to love and others you don't want to go near.
Heidi grew up in a home filled with books and artwork and she never truly imagined she would do anything other than write and paint. She studied art, languages, and history, all of which have come in handy when working as an author, magazine journalist, and painter.
After living in Canada, six US states, Japan, Switzerland, and Austria, Heidi now calls Norway home. She and her husband have a total of nine children, thirteen grandchildren--so far--in addition to a bouncy Wheaten Terrier.
Their favorite retreat is a mountain cabin, where they hike in the summertime and ski the vast, white terrain during winter.
Heidi's favorites are family, God's beautiful nature, and the word whimsical.
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Welcome to Day #4 of the blog tour for Beneath Black Clouds and White by Virginia Crow #HistoricalFiction #FrenchRevolution @DaysDyingGlory @MaddieS39950549

 

4th January – 15th January 2021

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Publication Date: 11th April 2019Publisher: CrowvusPrint Length: 637 PagesGenre: Historical Fiction/Military Fiction/Family Saga
Despite adoring his family and enjoying frequenting gaming tables, Captain Josiah Tenterchilt’s true love is the British Army and he is committed to his duty. As such, he does not hesitate to answer the army’s call when King Louis XVI of France is executed.
Accompanied by his wife to Flanders, Josiah finds his path crosses with a man who could not be more different from him: an apprentice surgeon named Henry Fotherby. As these two men pursue their own actions, fate and the careful connivance of a mysterious individual will push them together for the rest of their lives.
But it is a tumultuous time, and the French revolutionaries are not the only ones who pose a threat. The two gentlemen must find their place in a world where the constraints of social class are inescapable, and ‘slavery or abolition’ are the words on everyone’s lips.
Beneath Black Clouds and White is the prequel to Day's Dying Glory, which was published by Crowvus in April 2017.
Head on over to Oh look, another book! for a sneak-peek between the covers of this fabulous book!
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