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Hilda Petrie-Coutts
Books in Order: 11 titles
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The Golden Pomander
1660. The Monarchy has been restored after bitter civil war between Royalists and the Commonwealth under the late unlamented Oliver Cromwell. Charles II has the task of reuniting his divided Kingdom. Christmas festivities are saddened by the loss of ...
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High Soars the Eagle
April 1746. Kieran watches by door of her croft on wild morning of wind and rain, longing for return of her beloved husband. Alan left last August, taking up arms in support of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty. Wou...
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Tears in the Dust
Rosamund is living in Spain happily married to acclaimed pianist Leopold Heine commissioned by tempestuous black American Gabi Schofield to compose music for her film 'Tears in the Dust'. The phone rings. Leopold has died in a plane crash in the Ghan...
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The Twisted Skein
Rachel Roberts, courageous TV correspondent needs a break. She inherits Stormhaven, stone cottage on a spur jutting into the estuary at Rushton. In the tranquillity of this remote area, she plans to relax, perhaps find answers to the horrors of confl...
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The Road to Rome
Rome -- apex of world power, corrupt, bloodthirsty, dependant on slave labour, where insatiable masses demand ever more horrific conflicts in the arena between men and beasts. To this city then, in the reign of Emperor Claudius and successor Nero, co...
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Storm on the Loch
Successful writer Katya Kerensky has thrust the secret of her schoolgirl pregnancy, adoption of her baby forced on her by implacable parents, to the back of her mind. Now on a night of storm, she hears knocking at the door of her Perthshire cottage, ...
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To the Ends of the Earth
Centurion Claudius newly retired from the legion, living in his Capernaum villa, is informed of the illness of his estranged father, Senator Julius Antonius and is summoned back to Rome. At Jerusalem in the meanwhile disciples of the crucified Jesus ...
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The Centurion's Servant
Tiberius Caesar rules most of the known world. Palestine under Roman occupation is a seething cauldron of unrest, as young preacher Jesus of Nazareth attracts increasingly large crowds and the watchful Zealots under leadership of Barabbas, await chan...
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Cinders of Time
Sounds of violence, flames leaping to the sky, thick acrid smoke rising like a pall! Little Fiona Jamieson realises the dreaded Clearances have come to Glenbruach, witnesses her mother's murder, small brothers thrown into a cart. Other crofts torched...
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Gauntlet of Fire
It is Christmas Eve. Karin Courtney reluctantly accompanies writer husband Richard to a party to meet film director John Peterman, leaving their five year old son in care of a new baby-sitter. He awakes -- finds the girl sleeping, stares at the glitt...
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Danger My Destiny
Five years old Chantal, daughter of Charles Beddington, prominent MP and wealthy landowner, is kidnapped by the international terrorist gang 'September Nova' setting in motion a series of dramatic events stretching into her adult life. Following seve...