Epiphany Betrayal

Caroline Newark

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By 1397 Richard II's reign has descended into a nightmare world of execution, banishment and murder. Only those whom the king loves are safe and much of his fury is directed at the Arundel family of Nell Holand's mother. When Henry of Lancaster seizes the throne from his tyrannical cousin, no-one could be happier than Nell. But her Montagu father-in-law and her uncle, the dangerously ambitious John Holand, are plotting to restore Richard to his throne. When Nell is entrusted with delivering a secret message, she must decide which of the players in this dangerous game are to be trusted and who most deserves her loyalty. Whatever she does, whoever she confides in, she knows people are bound to die.From the shadowy streets of London and the king's magnificent palace at Windsor to the wilds of faraway Devonshire, The Epiphany Betrayal is the story of a young woman who faces hardship and danger when her life is turned upside down, and of the secret she must keep from her husband if she is to remain safe.

Sujets

• Gran Londres
• Historical fiction
• Greater London
• Devon
• Windsor
• Grand Londres
• London

Informations

• Publié par: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 12 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781838598495
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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The Queen’s Spy
The Fair Maid of Kent
An Illegitimate Affair



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For Isabelle Rose Li
Contents
The Family Tree (So Far)
List Of Main Characters

Prologue
Summer 1397
1
Revenge 1397
2
Lilleshall Abbey 1398
3
Banishment 1398
4
Love 1398
5
Marriage 1399
6
Bisham 1399
7
Invasion 1399
8
Usurpation 1399
9
Betrayal 1399
10
Windsor Castle 1400
11
Failure 1400
12
Fallout 1400
13
Stokenham 1400
14
Dartmouth 1400
15
Dartington 1401
16
Disaster 1402
17
Promises 1403
18
Blackpool Sands 1404
19
Reconciliation 1404
Epilogue
October 1415

Author’s Note
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Coming Soon
The Making Of A Tudor
About the Author
The Family Tree (So Far)
Edward the First, King of England, married in 1299 as his second wife, Marguerite, the daughter of Philip the Third, King of France, and had by her issue among others, Edmund of Woodstock.

Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, Earl of Arundel married in 1325, Margaret, the daughter of Lord John Wake and widow of John Comyn, by whom he had issue among others, Joan of Kent.

Joan, the “Fair Maid of Kent”, in her own right Countess of Kent, Baroness Woodstock and Baroness Wake, married Sir Thomas Holand, Lord Holand, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, to whom she bore issue Thomas Holand .

Thomas Holand married Alys, the daughter of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, by Eleanor, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, by whom he had issue among others, Eleanor (Nell) Holand.
List Of Main Characters
Nell Holand
daughter of the late earl of Kent
Her mother
Alys, dowager countess of Kent
Her sisters
Eleanor, countess of March
Joan, duchess of York
Margaret, marchioness of Dorset
Lizzie, betrothed to John Nevill
Bridget, a novice at Barking Abbey
Her brothers
Thomas, duke of Surrey
Edmund Holand
Aunt de Bohun
Joan, dowager countess of Hereford
Uncle Holand
John Holand, duke of Exeter
Aunt Elizabeth
his wife, sister of Henry of Lancaster
Constance
their daughter, Nell’s cousin
Uncle Arundel
Richard, earl of Arundel (deceased)
Dickon
the late earl of Arundel’s second son
The King
Richard II
The Queen
Isabelle of Valois
The king’s uncles
John, duke of Lancaster
Edmund, duke of York
Thomas, duke of Gloucester
Duchess Katherine
the duke of Lancaster’s third wife
Henry of Lancaster
the duke of Lancaster’s heir
Harry
Henry of Lancaster’s eldest son
Edward of York
the duke of York’s elder son
Tom Mowbray
son of Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk
John Montagu
the earl of Salisbury
Maud Francis
the countess of Salisbury
Tom Montagu
son of John Montagu and Maud Francis
Tom’s sisters
Anne, Meg and Lisbeth
Alan Buxhull
Maud’s son by a former marriage
Alan’s half-sisters
Amice Bardolf and Elizabeth Lynde
Jean Creton
French valet to John Montagu
John Hawley
a Devonshire ship-owner
Alicia Hawley
John Hawley’s second wife
Jack Hawley
John Hawley’s son by his first wife
Emeline Tresilian
John Hawley’s ward
Mistress Arnold
Alicia Hawley’s friend
John Ulveston
the vicar of Stokenham
Richard Courtenay
cousin to the earl of Devon
Sir John Cornwaille
Henry of Lancaster’s captain

Prologue
Summer 1397
John Holand’s approach to Pleshey had been from the south-east where the castle’s commanding position was best appreciated: huge encircling stone walls, a double moat and impossibly steep access up to the keep; all designed by some long-ago de Bohun lord to strike terror into the heart of a would-be invader.
The de Bohuns were long gone, crumbled to dust; nothing left but their vast stone tombs and a couple of weeping widows. Great quarrellers, those ancient men. They would have approved of the present incumbent, the bellicose duke of Gloucester, and admired his good sense when he’d plucked the elder of the two de Bohun heiresses for a bride and got Pleshey into the bargain.
Inside, the castle was cold, dark and uncomfortable, typical of men who tried to emulate the glory of their ancestors by clinging to the past. Holand looked up at the smoke-blackened beams of the great hall and wondered why the duke was so averse to fireplaces with chimneys.
Having done a quick inventory of his surroundings, he turned his attention to his host. The two were of an age, both in their mid-forties, both brawlers – though the duke would hotly deny the description – but there the similarities ended. Holand was tall, lean and rangy, still handsome, if his wife was to be believed, a man who carried his years lightly, unlike the duke whose stocky frame and angry eyes put Holand in mind of an evil-tempered bull preparing to charge.
‘Dinner?’ said the duke, suspiciously.
‘On the tenth.’
The duke rubbed the side of his nose with his thumb.
‘What’s he want?’
Holand smiled. ‘To mend the breach between the two of you.’
‘Poison my soup, more like.’
‘Your grace, my brother, the king …’
‘Brother indeed? You listen to me, Holand. I’d be careful if I were you. Richard’s a tricky little bastard at the best of times; always has been. Would’ve had your head on a spike that time in Yorkshire except the bishops advised against it.’
‘The man’s death was an accident, your grace.’
‘Accident, my arse!’
John Holand, never thought about Yorkshire. He’d been a different man in those days. Besides, marri