The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue England 1660

by Geoff Quaife

Overview

Luke, now the King's special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire's gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798893899689
Publisher:	Arpress
Publication date:	08/08/2024
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Geoff Quaife, born and educated in Melbourne Australia has been a university lecturer, historian and academic administrator spending most of his working life in Armidale in regional NSW. He is the author of academic works on witchcraft and sexual and the fifteen earlier Luke Tremayne adventures.