Exmoor Saga
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When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish.
A glimmer of initiative swells into blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born, the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle. Richard Lanyon answers to no one save the aristocratic Sweetwater family, owners of the land he farms.
His bitter resentment is legend within the bounds of their tiny Exmoor community, but as their tenant, Richard must do their bidding. Still, even noblemen don't have the power to contain ruthless ambition, and the Sweetwaters are no exception. Driven to succeed, Richard is prepared to take what is not his, and to forfeit the happiness of his family to claim the entitlements he lusts for.
In this epic story Valerie Anand creates a vivid portrait of fifteenth-century English life that resonates with the age-old themes of ambition, power, desire and greed.
For the first time, Jane beheld King Henry VIII of England.
He was broad chested and strong voiced, jewelled and befurred, a powerfully dominant presence... Lady-in-waiting Jane Sweetwater's resistance to the legendary attractions of Henry VIII may have saved her pretty neck, but her reward is a forced and unhappy marriage to a much older man.
Jane's only consolation is that she still lives upon her beloved Exmoor, the bleak yet beautiful land that cradles Allerbrook House, her family home. Though London may be distant from Exmoor, the religious and political turmoil of the Tudor court are never far away.
When Jane is forced to choose, will she remain faithful to the crown of England? Or will family ties bring down the house of Allerbrook?
From the glittering danger of the Tudor court to the bleak moors