A Divided Inheritance

By Deborah Swift,

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First she must fight for her inheritance. Then she must fight for her life.
'a classy, compelling adventure story and a true journey of discovery.' -- Lancashire Evening Post
London 1609
Genteel Englishwoman Elspet Leviston has always managed her father's lace business and expects to continue in his footsteps. So…

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Lace-making and swordsmanship, and a deadly personal feud; swashbuckling hist-fic with a well-researched core about cultural conflict in 17th century Spain. The story opens in London, in 1609, then moves to Seville, where a young woman tries to reclaim her inheritance from a man devoted solely to fencing and himself. I married into a traditional Spanish family; I know Seville. Deborah Swift captures the summer heat and dust, and the pervading sensation that violence is just one stone's throw away in a page-turning novel that made me think more deeply about Moorish Andalucía, what happened in the past here…

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