02615cam a2200397 i 4500 623524570 TxAuBib 20201209120000.0 200827s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781432884765 large print hardcover 143288476X large print hardcover (OCoLC)1196055065 O2C O2C eng eng rda rda rda O2C rda BDX O2C AUTNL UAP TH8 IFK GZD TxAuBib BDX AUTNL UAP TH8 IFK GZD TxAuBib rda Gregory, Philippa, author. Dark Tides / By Philippa Gregory. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 705 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Fairmile Series, The ; 2 "Thorndike Press large print basic."--Title page verso. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted 21 years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favor of the newly restored King Charles II and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy - his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows - without doubt - that her son is alive and the widow is an impostor. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home. 20201209. Success Fiction. Families Fiction. Legacies Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Impostors and imposture Fiction. Large print books. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft The Fairmile Series ; 2. TXKPL