Fil Reid

The Cornish Mermaid

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Two people hiding secrets. Are they a match made in heaven or will fate drive them apart? The present day While on holiday in Cornwall, land of her ancestors, Morvoren Lucas agrees with reluctance to accompany her soon to be ex-boyfriend on a sea-fishing trip. Her morbid fear of the water, despite her name meaning 'sea maiden' or 'mermaid' in Cornish, turns out to be justified when a sudden freak wave tosses the fishing boat, flinging her into the sea. 1811 Kit Carlyon takes one last sweep with his nets before heading for home and fishes out what he at first mistakes for a real mermaid. Morvoren. To begin with, he thinks she's dead, but then she revives and he realizes he's stuck with an unwanted visitor just when he and his uncle don't need one. Because Kit and his uncle are smugglers, and they have a shipment from Brittany arriving that night. It takes a trip to Penzance, where Morvoren was staying in a holiday cottage, to make her realize she's traveled back in time, something she doesn't confide in Kit. She's lost, nearly two hundred years before her birth, with no money and not a friend in the world - except for Kit. He, feeling responsibility for her because he fished her out of the sea, decides the only thing he can do is to take her back to his Wiltshire home and put her in the care of his mother and sister. But Morvoren has a secret. In the museum in modern Penzance she's seen a display about local smuggling, and she knows Kit is going to be killed in the cove below where his uncle lives. The problem is that she didn't pay enough attention to the display, and she doesn't know when this is going to happen. Surely she's been snatched back in time for a purpose, and that must be to save the man she's falling in love with. But can you truly change the course of history, or is it written in stone? The Cornish Ladies Series Book 1 - The Cornish Mermaid Book 2 - The Cornish Bride Book 3 - The Cornish Inheritance Book 4 - The Cornish Widow

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Produktdetails

• The Cornish Ladies
• Verlag: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9781963585568
• ISBN-10: 1963585569
• Artikelnr.: 70743339

Autorenporträt

Fil Reid lives four miles from the sea in Cornwall with her husband and a rescue dog from Romania called Bella. Her books have been published by Dragonblade in the US since she won their Write Stuff competition. Her first six books comprise the Guinevere series - an innovative retelling of the Arthurian legend from the point of view of a modern origin Guinevere. Her short stories have been shortlisted in several competitions and won a few prizes. She has a new series set in Cornwall coming out this year, starting with The Cornish Mermaid.Apart from writing, the great love of her life has always been horses, and when she was younger she worked with them for a number of years - on the stud attached to Highclere Castle (where Downton Abbey was filmed), as a stable girl in a flat racing yard (when she was young, brave and thin), and in a riding school. She also ran her own riding school when her children were small.She speaks fluent French after having lived there for ten years, after which she lived on a widebeam canal boat before her move to Cornwall. One of the things she loves to do is to visit the sites she uses in her stories. However, she has acrophobia, a morbid fear of heights, so one or two places are out of reach to her. Too scary!She's been fascinated by all things Arthurian since she was a small child and saw the Disney film The Sword in the Stone, but didn't find out until she was an adult that she has Asperger's Syndrome (as do two of her sons). She now believes her ASD accounts for her obsessions with both horses and King Arthur.