Crowning Mercy

by Bernard Cornwell 2 books in this series

The Crowning Mercy novels follow the Lazender family through two periods of upheaval in European history. A Crowning Mercy is set amid the religious and political violence of the English Civil War, when a young woman’s inheritance draws her into a contest involving family loyalty, faith and royalist conspiracy. Fallen Angels moves the family story to the French Revolution, where aristocratic privilege, revolutionary justice and personal vengeance threaten a later generation.

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Books in this series (2 books)

1. A Crowning Mercy

Bernard Cornwell

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Dorcas Slythe grows up in a rigid Puritan household during the English Civil War, unaware that an inheritance has made her the target of men prepared to use murder, fraud and religious authority to seize it. After escaping her family, she enters a country divided between…

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2. Fallen Angels

Bernard Cornwell

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A later generation of the Lazender family is drawn into danger as revolutionary France overturns aristocratic society and war spreads across Europe. Lazen Castle appears secure, but an old grievance and a disputed legacy connect the family to events in Paris, where imprisonment, political violence and…

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