Acts of Faith
Featuring Blue Satan and Mrs. Kean
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
In the summer of 1716, as King George celebrates victory over the Jacobite rebels, waiting-woman Hester Kean is sent into Yorkshire to ready her cousin Mary for life at Court. Nursing a broken heart, Hester is grateful for the change of scenery, but her peace is soon disrupted by the religious conflicts still stirring tensions in Great Britain.
She befriends a fellow passenger on the stage, a neighbour of her cousins’, who turns out to be a Roman Catholic, coming home after receiving an illegal education in France. When they arrive to learn that his father has been murdered, Hester efforts to help are stymied by the secrecy under which Catholics are forced to live. To solve the murder, she must delve into the practices Catholics used to shield themselves from the law and the neighbours who would do them harm.
All is not grim, however. Hester’s heart is instantly elated when Gideon, the outlawed Viscount St. Mars, aka the highwayman Blue Satan, appears at her cousins’ house in the guise of a gentleman searching for an estate to buy. At last, Hester’s doubts are banished. She knows that he loves her. But does he want her for his mistress or his wife? It will take a different sort of act of faith to seize the happiness she was convinced would never be hers.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful story!
I thoroughly enjoyed this next installment in the Blue Satan and Mrs Kean series. It does not include the same swashbuckling type of events found in the previous books, but we are able to see how St. Mars behaves in more normal social settings, though under an assumed name, interacting with Hester and others characters. All of the Blue Satan books are wonderful stories that include both mystery and romance (and how an unlikely friendship deepens into more). I was not very familiar with the period of history in which they are set - the early 1700’s that saw the rejection of the heir of James l of England by parliament because of his being raised Catholic and the installation of George l of Hanover as king. Reading these books has increased my interest, and I have made an effort to read more of that time period and of any specific historical events mentioned in the books. I hope you enjoy these wonderful stories, as well.