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Fortune’s Soldier
First published 1985
Lady Horatia Waldegrave falls in love with Captain John Joseph Webbe-Weston, a soldier whose service for the Austrian emperor has carried him through the unsettled Europe of the Napoleonic age. John is also heir to Sutton Place, and with that inheritance comes the old story of Queen Edith’s curse and the disasters that have followed the house through successive generations.
Their relationship forces the trilogy’s final generation to confront whether the pattern surrounding Sutton is a genuine supernatural force or a history that has taught its owners to expect catastrophe. Military service, continental politics and aristocratic obligation broaden the setting beyond Surrey, but the manor remains the centre of the conflict. Horatia and John must decide whether love can create a future independent of a past that has already shaped their families for centuries.
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