The Silver Branch [book II] (29 page)

‘a little masterpiece’

Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

‘it’s hard to see how she could have done it better’
Independent on Sunday

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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

‘Travel to Skagen and find him. Give him my letter.

Seek a better life, Marianne! Promise!’

Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen—the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before.

Will the father she has never met welcome the arrival of his illegitimate child?

And why didn’t he return for her mother, as he promised he would?

Spring 1540

I am afraid. You are in grave danger. Mother, will you run away with me if I can free you?

When a chance discovery reveals a plot to murder her mother Eleanor must save her before it is too late. But with danger and betrayal at every turn, she can trust no one. Especially not her father.

Eleanor must use all her cunning to survive. For she soon realises that it is not just her mother she needs to save … but also herself.