The Loveday Trials (Loveday series, Book 3): A brooding and intriguing saga set in eighteenth-century Cornwall

by KateTremayne (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.29

  It is 1793 and in France, the founding of the Republic is underway. In Cornwall the Loveday shipyard is still struggling and money is tight. Adam finds he must leave his bride to earn his living at sea and becomes involved in helping emigres escape from revolutionary France. Meanwhile, Adam's brother, St John, is in trouble. The riches from his smuggling are being lost by his wife, an unlucky gambler, while his disreputable associates have implicated him in murder. The scandal adds to the growing dissent and rivalry that troubles the Loveday household - will the family see beyond their differences and unite once more?

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.29

  Cornwall: 1793. As the Lovedays' finances recover from near ruin, it is clear their trials are far from over. Adam, returning from Trevowan with Senara - now his wife - and their baby son, finds himself at loggerheads with his father. Edward refuses to accept his son's choice of bride, and Adam finds it impossible to continue working in the family shipyard. To support his wife and child, he works as an English agent in France, the country still in the grip of the Terror. Meanwhile, St John is in trouble again. His involvement in the murky world of smuggling has made him some dangerous enemies - not least the corrupt Thadeous Lanyon. When Thadeous is found murdered, St John is arrested. If found guilty, he will be hanged. Can the Lovedays pull together over this? Or will these new trials finally tear them apart?

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  Paperback
  2002

  $12.44

  Cornwall: 1793. As the Lovedays' finances recover from near ruin, it is clear their trials are far from over. Adam, returning from Trevowan with Senara - now his wife - and their baby son, finds himself at loggerheads with his father. Edward refuses to accept his son's choice of bride, and Adam finds it impossible to continue working in the family shipyard. To support his wife and child, he works as an English agent in France, the country still in the grip of the Terror. Meanwhile, St John is in trouble again. His involvement in the murky world of smuggling has made him some dangerous enemies - not least the corrupt Thadeous Lanyon. When Thadeous is found murdered, St John is arrested. If found guilty, he will be hanged. Can the Lovedays pull together over this? Or will these new trials finally tear them apart?