Duking Days Rebellion
Helena Woulfe, the daughter of a wealthy Exeter nobleman leads a privileged life. However, when King Charles II's reign ends, rebellion sweeps the West Country and she takes to the road in search of her missing father and brother after Monmouth’s defeat at Sedgemoor. When soldiers ransack her home and the family estate is confiscated by the crown, Helena and her younger brother Henry, seek refuge with a family who take them in, but King James wants revenge. Bereft and abandoned, she goes to London, hoping the city will overlook her past and they can make a new life. Only, there are others willing to do harm to a traitor's daughter and, before she can find happiness with Guy, the man who offers her the security and respectability she seeks, she learns her family’s allegiances can snatch away her safety at any time.
Duking Days Revolution
Helena is now married to goldsmith Guy Palmer, London finds itself suffering the brunt of anti Catholic riots and with Aaron still in Holland plotting with Prince William, helena's life is anything but peaceful. Henry is in love with a married woman and when Aaron, returns to England with Prince William's invading force their lives change for the better. However war is not far away and each character must confront challenges and blessings, from childbirth, fire, smallpox and economic upheaval to adultery, warfare, murder, and manslaughter, while the story ends with happiness for some and the revelation of a secret that affects them all.
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