Susan Holloway Scott, Author . New American Library $14 (379p) ISBN 978-0-451-21855-1
Sarah Jennings's ascent from poverty as a 13-year-old to the highest echelons of late 17th- and early 18th-century English society has all the trappings of supermarket tabloids: intrigue, treachery, deceit and sexual scandals. In this first-perso
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Susan Holloway Scott, Author . NAL $14 (380p) ISBN 978-0-451-22134-6
As in her popular Duchess
, about Sarah Churchill, Scott captures in her latest historical romance the brilliance and hard beauty of Barbara Palmer (Lady Castlemaine), the Merry Monarch’s most famous and enduring mistress. A young but far from
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Susan Holloway Scott, Author . NAL $14 (439p) ISBN 978-0-451-22406-4
Scott's (Royal Harlot
) fictionalized account of the colorful and remarkable life of Nell Gwyn, mistress to King Charles II, gives the two a lovely mutual affection. Nell, raised in a brothel, senses she's destined for better things, and...
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Susan Holloway Scott, NAL, $15 paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-23115-4
In this vivid portrait of Katherine Sedley, mistress of King James II, Scott (The French Mistress) unravels the intricate web of court intrigues that has long fascinated historical romance enthusiasts. Supposedly plain yet intelligent and...
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Susan Holloway Scott. Kensington, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1252-3
Scott (The Countess and the King) stands to capitalize on the popularity of the Broadway hit Hamilton with this story of the founding father’s wife, Elizabeth Schuyler, who proves not only a passionate guardian of her husband’s home and children,...
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Susan Holloway Scott. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1918-8
Scott (I, Eliza Hamilton) imagines the life of Mary Emmons, an enslaved woman from India who had a relationship with Aaron Burr, providing her a voice that highlights the hypocrisy and cruelty of the white imperialists around her. Born in Calcutta...
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