![]() While debauched Sheff would kill the priest and throw the rest in prison, Jamie argues for their lives. Among them is 18-year-old Brighid whose beauty catches Jamie’s eye. ![]() On a hunt in Ireland, they come across some Irish Catholics illegally observing their faith while conducting a child’s funeral. To help Jamie with the House of Lords, he seeks the aid of a friend from Oxford days, Sheffield, Lord Byerly, whose lands lay in Ireland. Set in Ireland (and some in England) in 1751 (prologue), 17 (epilogue), it tells the story of Jamie Blakewell (brother to Cassie in SWEET RELEASE), an Englishman with a tobacco plantation in the Colony of Virginia, who has returned to England to try and persuade Parliament to provide money for ships to defeat the French and their Indian allies in the war that has just begun. ![]() This is the second in Clare’s Blakewell/Kenleigh Family trilogy and it’s a good one. ![]()
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