Summer Darkness, Winter Light
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
"[A] powerful romance brimming over with intense emotions and dark passions" set in 18th-century England from the award-winning author of Lysette (RT Book Reviews).
Young, passionate, and willful, Allegra Baniard is out for revenge. After her family had been branded traitors and banished from Shropshire, she was forced to spend eight brutal years as an indentured servant in the Colonies. Now, she has returned to the ancestral home of her once-noble family, vowing to avenge them.
But when she meets Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall, he ignites a desire in Allegra's heart that burns as fiercely as her wrath. And even as she tries to hate him, she realizes that she may be sacrificing more than she thought for her vengeance.
Caught between her newfound love and a long-simmering hate, Allegra must decide whether to destroy those who wronged her and give up her last chance for happiness—or surrender to her deepest desires and betray the ghosts of her family . . .
In this story of unexpected love and retribution, "fans of historical romance will feel right at home with Halliday's setting . . . and with her florid dialogue and emotional complexities" (Publishers Weekly).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of historical romance will feel right at home with Halliday's (The Wicked Stranger) setting, 18th-century England, and with her florid dialogue and emotional complexities. Allegra Baniard returns incognito to the ancestral home of her once-noble family, who eight years previously had been branded as traitors, expelled from Shropshire and sentenced to indentured service in the Colonies. Believing herself to be the sole surviving Baniard, Allegra vows to avenge the skulduggery that brought her family to ruin. As payment for poaching, however, she is forced to indenture herself to Sir Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall. When Grey demands one year's servitude from Allegra or that she succumb to his advances, she gains favor by using her skills as a stillroom maid to cure the household's ills. As she contends with churlish servants, lecherous locals and the contest of wills with her new master, Allegra plots to avenge her family's false conviction even as she is drawn to Grey and his own secret torment. Despite its gutsy heroine, brooding hero and period details, the novel is overwrought even for the conventions of this hothouse genre.
