Nights Of The Road

The Book: The world of twenty-first century US rock music intertwines with life at the seventeenth-century English court of King James the First. Both places and periods come to sparkling life, with meticulous attention to historical and geographical detail:The Story: Fourteen-year-old Frances Coke is sold into marriage with the manic-depressive brother of King James the First's lover to save her famous father's political skin.The Duke of Buckingham wants Frances's inheritance and must keep his brother from siring an heir. His brutality sends Frances into the arms of Sir Robert Howard, with whom she bears a son and flees into Shropshire. Buckingham is assassinated and Frances assumes she can return to Society. But her persecution begins anew?In present day California, Sarah James is making a new life after her unhappy past in England. She has a thriving therapy practice and a promising relationship with rock music promoter, Bob Howard. Sarah has never heard of Frances Coke, until a drink-sodden British rock musician kidnaps and carries her to his isolated desert cabin. Her captor means to coerce Bob into helping him revive a flagging music career, but he also has other scores to settle. They involve Sarah, Frances and a real-life 17th-century highwayman?What People Say: "It's a big, bold, ambitious and thought-provoking book and I found myself thinking about it a long time after I had finished it." Nicola Cornick, international best-selling author. "Rock music meets the Stuart royal court in this haunting tale of two heroines, each as beleaguered as she is loved. This novel of swashbuckle and self-discovery shifts between time and place - from hipster LA to the ruined ramparts of Corfe Castle. Read it fast for its pyrotechnical plot, or savor more slowly as a literary spritzer for the soul." Madeleine Kingsley, journalist and book reviewer.

• | Author: Midi Berry
• | Publisher: Midi Berry
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0986382825
• | ISBN-13: 9780986382826