Dark Angels: A Novel

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Dark Angels: A Novel

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIVâ€™s Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. First, she will regain her former position as a maid of honor to Charles IIâ€™s queen. Then she will marry the most celebrated duke of the Restoration, putting herself in a position to attain power sheâ€™s only dreamed of. As a duchess, Alice will be able to make or break her friends and enemies at will.

But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is moving to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldnâ€™t mind seeing dead. But Alice, loyal only to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be making sinister plans, and if her own father is one of them. When a member of the royal family dies unexpectedly, and poison is suspected, the stakes are raised. Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is and isnâ€™t true to the queen, learns of shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man that she may be falling in love withâ€”and who will spoil all of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety of the king himself seems uncertain. Secret plots are at play, and war is on the horizonâ€”but will it be with the Dutch or the French? And has King Charles himself betrayed his country for greed?

The long-awaited prequel to Koenâ€™s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Unforgettable in its dramatic force, here is a novel of love and politics, of romance and betrayal, of power and successionâ€”and of a resourceful young woman who risks everything for pride and status in an era in which women were afforded little of either.

Country	USA
Author	Karleen Koen
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307339911
Edition	First Edition
ISBN	0307339912
Label	Crown
Manufacturer	Crown
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	544
PublicationDate	2006-09-05
Publisher	Crown
ReleaseDate	2006-09-05
Studio	Crown

Dark Angels: A Novel

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