Book description
The dramatic sequel to
Jacobean Adventure
Alec Nimmo, his life in danger, sets sail for America. By the time he
reaches the New World, Alec is closely involved with three women.
Katharine Leslie, the beautiful temptress, tries to turn Alec against
his closest friend; Janet Macilroy, the gentle widow, desperately awaits
his return to Scotland; and Polly Sugden, headstrong and reckless, who
shares with Alec a life of adventure - and danger.
This is a story of terrible hardship in the little settlement of James
Town, Virginia - of courage, endurance and passion. Even for Nimmo,
fiery and impetuous, with everything to live for, there are times when
the struggle becomes too much, when death seems more real than life . .
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“Immensely readable . . . tremendously absorbing.” Elizabethan
“A worthy addition to a long line of excellent and well-researched
novels.” Manchester Evening News
Josephine Bell was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester, England.
Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at
Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College
Hospital in London she was granted M. R.C. S. and L. R.C. P. in 1922,
and a M. B. B. S. in 1924.
Bell was a prolific author, writing forty-three novels and numerous
uncollected short stories during a forty-five year period.
Many of her short stories appeared in the London Evening Standard
. Using her pen name she wrote numerous detective novels beginning in
1936, and she was well-known for her medical mysteries. Her early books
featured the fictional character Dr. David Wintringham who worked at
Research Hospital in London as a junior assistant physician. She helped
found the Crime Writers' Association in 1953 and served as chair during
1959-60.
