Historical Drama & Political Intrigue Bundle 10 Books Collection Set - Fiction – Paperback

{"id":15243485053315,"title":"Historical Drama \u0026 Political Intrigue Bundle 10 Books Collection Set - Fiction – Paperback","handle":"historical-drama-political-intrigue-bundle-10-books-collection-set-fiction-paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in This Set:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Chadwick Collection The Wild Hunt Series 4 Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wild Hunt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Running Vixen\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Leopard Unleashed\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Coming of the Wolf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippa Gregory Collection The Wideacre Trilogy 3 Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWideacre\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Favoured Child\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeridon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRory Clements Collection Tom Wilde Series 3 Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorpus\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNucleus\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNemesis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription :\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Chadwick Collection The Wild Hunt Series 4 Books:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wild Hunt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWales, 1098\u003cbr\u003eIn the wild, windswept Welsh marches, a noble young lord rides for home, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his estate - but they have yet to meet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the turn of the twelfth century. Dynasties forge and fight for dominance and, behind the precarious throne of William Rufus, political intrigue rages. Bound in marriage but poles apart, Guyon and Judith are caught up in the turmoil. As a dark\u003cbr\u003esecret from the past is revealed, the full storm of war crashes over them. If they are to stand any chance of surviving, they must unite - but that is more easily said than done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Running Vixen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWales, 1126\u003cbr\u003eHeulwen, daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles, has grown up with her father's ward, Adam de Lacey. There has always been a spark between them, but when Heulwen marries elsewhere, to Ralf le Chevalier, a devastated Adam absents himself on various diplomatic missions for King Henry I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ralf is killed in a skirmish, Heulwen's father considers a new marriage for her with his neighbour's son, Warrin de Mortimer. Adam, recently returned to England, has good reason to loathe Warrin and is determined not to lose Heulwen a second time. But Heulwen is torn between her duty to her father and the pull of her heart. Adam is no longer the awkward boy she remembers, but a man who stirs every fibre of her being - which places them both in great danger, because Warrin de Mortimer is not a man to be crossed and the future of a country is at stake . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Leopard Unleashed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWales, 1139\u003cbr\u003eRenard, heir to Ravenstow, is a crusader in Antioch, a place far removed from the cold Welsh Marches of his birth. Summoned home to his ailing father, Renard brings Olwen with him, an exotic dancing girl whose sensuous beauty and wild ways have ensnared him. Yet, in a political match made by their families, Renard is already betrothed to the innocent Elene and he knows he is also returning to the duty of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTorn between Olwen and Elene, Renard's personal dilemma is set against a background of increasing civil strife as Ranulf of Chester, his greedy neighbour, strives to snatch his lands. When Renard is taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, his fate is placed in the hands of the two women - his former mistress, now in the bed of his deadliest enemy, and his determined yet inexperienced wife, protecting his lands against terrible odds . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Coming of the Wolf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Welsh Borders, 1069\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ashdyke Manor is attacked, Lady Christen is forced to witness her husband's murder and the pillaging of her lands at the hands of brutal Norman invaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt seems the pain is finally over when Miles Le Gallois, Lord of Milnham-on-Wye, calls off the attack. But he has Christen's brother under armed guard and a deal to offer: her brother's freedom for her hand in marriage. Christen finds herself hastily married into the enemy side, with her brother swearing his vengeance on her new husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles and Christen's precarious union invites enemies from all sides and when Miles is summoned for a lengthy campaign by the King, Christen is left to watch his lands. In the midst of war, two enemies must somehow learn to trust one another if they are to survive . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780751540260\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippa Gregory Collection The Wideacre Trilogy 3 Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780751540260\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWideacre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. Sexual and wilful, she believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of horrible crimes, and no-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Favoured Child\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeridon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Dandy, beautiful, impatient, thieving Dandy, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre – which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRory Clements Collection Tom Wilde Series 3 Books:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorpus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1936 - Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government. When a renowned society couple with fascist leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books. The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNucleus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune 1939. England is partying like there's no tomorrow . . . but the good times won't last. The Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, in Germany Jewish persecution is widespread and, closer to home, the IRA has embarked on a bombing campaign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps most worryingly of all, in Germany Otto Hahn has produced man-made fission and an atomic device is now possible. German High Command knows Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is also close, and when one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is drawn into the investigation. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin, and from the US to Ireland, can he discover the truth before it's too late? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNemesis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? 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He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his estate - but they have yet to meet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the turn of the twelfth century. Dynasties forge and fight for dominance and, behind the precarious throne of William Rufus, political intrigue rages. Bound in marriage but poles apart, Guyon and Judith are caught up in the turmoil. As a dark\u003cbr\u003esecret from the past is revealed, the full storm of war crashes over them. If they are to stand any chance of surviving, they must unite - but that is more easily said than done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Running Vixen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWales, 1126\u003cbr\u003eHeulwen, daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles, has grown up with her father's ward, Adam de Lacey. There has always been a spark between them, but when Heulwen marries elsewhere, to Ralf le Chevalier, a devastated Adam absents himself on various diplomatic missions for King Henry I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ralf is killed in a skirmish, Heulwen's father considers a new marriage for her with his neighbour's son, Warrin de Mortimer. Adam, recently returned to England, has good reason to loathe Warrin and is determined not to lose Heulwen a second time. But Heulwen is torn between her duty to her father and the pull of her heart. Adam is no longer the awkward boy she remembers, but a man who stirs every fibre of her being - which places them both in great danger, because Warrin de Mortimer is not a man to be crossed and the future of a country is at stake . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Leopard Unleashed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWales, 1139\u003cbr\u003eRenard, heir to Ravenstow, is a crusader in Antioch, a place far removed from the cold Welsh Marches of his birth. Summoned home to his ailing father, Renard brings Olwen with him, an exotic dancing girl whose sensuous beauty and wild ways have ensnared him. Yet, in a political match made by their families, Renard is already betrothed to the innocent Elene and he knows he is also returning to the duty of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTorn between Olwen and Elene, Renard's personal dilemma is set against a background of increasing civil strife as Ranulf of Chester, his greedy neighbour, strives to snatch his lands. When Renard is taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, his fate is placed in the hands of the two women - his former mistress, now in the bed of his deadliest enemy, and his determined yet inexperienced wife, protecting his lands against terrible odds . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Coming of the Wolf\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Welsh Borders, 1069\u003cbr\u003eWhen Ashdyke Manor is attacked, Lady Christen is forced to witness her husband's murder and the pillaging of her lands at the hands of brutal Norman invaders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt seems the pain is finally over when Miles Le Gallois, Lord of Milnham-on-Wye, calls off the attack. But he has Christen's brother under armed guard and a deal to offer: her brother's freedom for her hand in marriage. Christen finds herself hastily married into the enemy side, with her brother swearing his vengeance on her new husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles and Christen's precarious union invites enemies from all sides and when Miles is summoned for a lengthy campaign by the King, Christen is left to watch his lands. In the midst of war, two enemies must somehow learn to trust one another if they are to survive . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780751540260\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippa Gregory Collection The Wideacre Trilogy 3 Books:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"goodreadr\" data-isbn=\"9780751540260\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWideacre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the ancestral home that Beatrice Lacey loves. But as a woman of the eighteenth century she has no right of inheritance. Corrupted by a world that mistreats women, she sets out to corrupt others. Sexual and wilful, she believes that the only way to achieve control over Wideacre is through a series of horrible crimes, and no-one escapes the consequences of her need to possess the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Favoured Child\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favoured child. Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeridon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Dandy, beautiful, impatient, thieving Dandy, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre – which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRory Clements Collection Tom Wilde Series 3 Books:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorpus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1936 - Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland. In Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror. Spain has erupted in civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an exclusive London club, a conspiracy is launched that threatens the very heart of government. When a renowned society couple with fascist leanings are found brutally murdered, a maverick Cambridge professor is drawn into a world of espionage he knows only from history books. The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNucleus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune 1939. England is partying like there's no tomorrow . . . but the good times won't last. The Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, in Germany Jewish persecution is widespread and, closer to home, the IRA has embarked on a bombing campaign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps most worryingly of all, in Germany Otto Hahn has produced man-made fission and an atomic device is now possible. German High Command knows Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is also close, and when one of the Cavendish's finest brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is drawn into the investigation. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin, and from the US to Ireland, can he discover the truth before it's too late? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNemesis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}