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A Desperate Fortune
Leigh says: There’s so much to love about this 2015 novel: old diaries, codebreaking, fairy tales, perilous journeys, Jacobites, a hot Frenchman, past and present storylines. Amateur codebreaker Sara is hired to decode a three hundred-year-old journal belonging to Jacobite exile Mary Dundas. There’s never a dull moment in Mary’s storyline, which provides perspective about the toll the Jacobite cause took on families. Both Sara in the present and Mary in the past have wonderful love stories. I particularly appreciated the way Luc accepted and cared for Sara, who is autistic.
About the Book
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“Fascinating and immersive… I love a novel that deals with the many ways in which people keep their secrets.”—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley delivers a riveting novel that deftly intertwines the tales of two women, divided by centuries and forever changed by a clash of love and fate.
For nearly three hundred years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher.
Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing-for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.
As Mary’s gripping tale of rebellion and betrayal is revealed to her, Sara faces events in her own life that require letting go of everything she thought she knew-about herself, about loyalty, and especially about love. Though divided by centuries, these two women are united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and the unlikely coincidences of fate.
“A grand adventure…Susanna Kearsley just keeps getting better and better!” —LAUREN WILLIG, New York Times bestselling author
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