The cross and the flame
By: Roberta Grieve
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Linford romance library; Linford romance library
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781847821485
Subjects: Forced marriage; Fiction; Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666
Description: While the Great Plague rages through London, Hester dreams of her sailor sweetheart Jonathan, despite being promised in marriage to her father's friend -- the odious Thomas Latham. The deaths of her mother and baby brother bring guilty relief when the wedding is postponed. Then Jonathan returns to the news that Hester has died in the plague. Will he discover the deception before she is forced to marry a man who has no place in her heart?