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A Better Domesday
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Sholto Plunkett, having lost his entire family to the plague, has retreated to his farm and his bitterness - until a chance encounter on the road changes his life. Elderly royalist Sir Rufus Quarry becomes Sholto’s new employer, mentor, and friend - and Sholto quickly becomes embroiled in subterfuge and daring rescues, is nearly murdered, and falls hopelessly in love with Sir Rufus’s lovely granddaughter Barbara. As the Parliament and his new-found family’s enemies circle ever closer, the story builds to a nail-biting climax. Can Sholto save the day, save Sir Rufus, and win the girl?
From author Lindsey Erith and producer Justin Hill comes the third audiobook in the English Civil War Romances series. Witty, ironic, poetic, poignant and tender, A Better Domesday is read by award-winning narrator Clive Hayward and includes specially commissioned music performed by Sam Brown. ©2026 Lindsey Erith (P) 2026 The Other Operation
Wanton Troopers
Olympia Publishers
SYNOPSIS:
Hugh Malahide has suffered the Royalist defeat. What can he do? Determined neither to sink nor go home, he supports an injured King’s man who has been disinherited by his Parliamentarian father.
Divided by the conflict, can father and son be reconciled? Is the young man a cuckoo in the nest? Will the young lady of this family respond when the ineligible Hugh desires her?
Will Hugh be able to pull chestnuts out of the fire of circumstance? He must hold fast to honesty, to the young lady, despite burglary, seduction, ineligibility, and the Parliamentarian’s urge to trample his neighbour and buy up his land.
Published by Cranthorpe Millner Publishers
Mary Florida (ISBN: 978-1-80378-094-8)
Published on 26th July 2022
Available in paperback (£8.99) and Kindle format.
Mary Florida, A Romance
‘Mary Florida’ opens the window for readers to escape in the company of a forthright 17th Century Royalist faced with defeat, bastardy, espionage, hatred, and desire for the lady of his urgent dreams.
The man of the moment is the reinvention of what it means to be a hero.
Mary Florida is a romance. It concerns John Blackavise, who is a forthright and attractive man; an alternative to run-of-the-mill cardboard action men or to introverted sufferers. In essence, he is the reinvention of what it means to be a hero.
He has to confront King Charles’s defeat and deal with the decisive melting pot of his own life. The siren song of the Royalists’ lost cause is subdued by his adventures and his desire for an unattainable beauty. Will his bastard birth prevent Mary Florida loving him? Why do enemies gather to do him down? Will he inherit his Godmother’s fortune when she dies, or will he be dead in a ditch? Will Mary Florida awaken to his charms? All of which, vitally, depends on his survival.