Dark Tides

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New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel traces the rise of the Tidelands in London, Venice, and New England.

Midsummer Eve, 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the sweetheart he abandoned twenty-one years earlier. James Avery has everything to offer, including the amiability of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that poor warehouse owner Elinor has the one thing his money can't buy—his son and heir.

The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in the throes of grief. Elinor claims to be her mother-in-law and has come to tell her that her son Rob has drowned in the murky waters of the Venetian lagoon. Elinor writes to her brother Ned, a recent arrival in distant New England, trying to build a life among the world of English newcomers and American Indians as they head toward inevitable war. Elinor tells him that she knows—without a doubt—that her son is alive and that the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Reformation-era London, in the gilded streets of Venice, and on the hotly contested frontier of old America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, wealth, a child, and home.