Author : Deborah Swift
Release : 2010-11-23
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 760/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lady's Slipper by : Deborah Swift
Download or read book The Lady's Slipper written by Deborah Swift. This book was released on 2010-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1660. King Charles II has returned from exile, but memories of the English Civil War still rankle. There are old scores to settle, and religious differences threaten to overturn a fragile peace. When Alice Ibbetson discovers a rare orchid, the Lady's Slipper, growing in a wood belonging to Richard Wheeler, she is captivated by its beauty— though Wheeler, a Quaker, is determined to keep the flower where God intended it to grow. Knowing that the orchid is the last of its kind, she steals the flower, little dreaming that her seemingly simple act will set off a chain of events that will lead to murder and exile, and change her life forever...