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The Resource Bellewether, Susanna Kearsley

Bellewether, Susanna Kearsley

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"It's 1759 and the world is at war, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. The times are complicated, as are the loyalties of many New York merchants who have secretly been trading with the French for years, defying Britain's colonial laws in a game growing ever more treacherous. When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes on their parole of honour, it upends the lives of the Wilde family-deeply involved in the treasonous trade and already divided by war. Lydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother's death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the war's end they'll both learn love, honour, and duty can form tangled bonds that are not broken easily. Their doomed romance becomes a local legend, told and re-told through the years until the present day, when conflict of a different kind brings Charley Van Hoek to Long Island to be the new curator of the Wilde House Museum. Charley doesn't believe in ghosts. But as she starts to delve into the history of Lydia and her French officer, it becomes clear that the Wilde House holds more than just secrets, and Charley discovers the legend might not have been telling the whole story... or the whole truth."--
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eng
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Bellewether
Title
Bellewether
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Susanna Kearsley
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Language
eng
Summary
"It's 1759 and the world is at war, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. The times are complicated, as are the loyalties of many New York merchants who have secretly been trading with the French for years, defying Britain's colonial laws in a game growing ever more treacherous. When captured French officers are brought to Long Island to be billeted in private homes on their parole of honour, it upends the lives of the Wilde family-deeply involved in the treasonous trade and already divided by war. Lydia Wilde, struggling to keep the peace in her fracturing family following her mother's death, has little time or kindness to spare for her unwanted guests. And Canadian lieutenant Jean-Philippe de Sabran has little desire to be there. But by the war's end they'll both learn love, honour, and duty can form tangled bonds that are not broken easily. Their doomed romance becomes a local legend, told and re-told through the years until the present day, when conflict of a different kind brings Charley Van Hoek to Long Island to be the new curator of the Wilde House Museum. Charley doesn't believe in ghosts. But as she starts to delve into the history of Lydia and her French officer, it becomes clear that the Wilde House holds more than just secrets, and Charley discovers the legend might not have been telling the whole story... or the whole truth."--
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1966-
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Kearsley, Susanna
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[Fic]
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illustrations
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novels
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  • Museums
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
  • Soldiers
  • Prisoners
  • Ghosts
  • Museums
  • United States
  • Long Island (N.Y.)
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Bellewether, Susanna Kearsley
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Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
414 p.
Isbn
9781501116544
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(pbk. bd.)
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ill.
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  • 284736
  • 868800
Label
Bellewether, Susanna Kearsley
Publication
Dimensions
22 cm.
Extent
414 p.
Isbn
9781501116544
Isbn Type
(pbk. bd.)
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • 284736
  • 868800

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