Böcker av Alison Stuart

The breathtaking conclusion to the GUARDIANS OF THE CROWN series, introduces a heroine with nothing left to lose and a hero with everything to gain...England, 1659: Following the death of Cromwell, a new king is poised to ascend the throne of England. One by one, those once loyal to the crown begin to return ...Agnes Fletcher's lover is dead, and when his two orphaned children are torn from her care by their scheming guardian, she finds herself alone and devastated by the loss. Unwilling to give up, Agnes desperately seeks anyone willing to accompany her on a perilous journey to save the children and return them to her care. After enduring imprisonment, exile and torture, the fugitive Daniel Lovell has returned to England, determined to find his brother and kill the man who murdered his father. But the King has one last mission for him and there is the small matter of a desperate woman who needs his help. Agnes finds her protector in Daniel Lovell and thrown together with separate quests - and competing obligations - Daniel and Agnes make their way from London to the English countryside, danger at every turn. When they are finally given the opportunity to seize everything they ever hoped for, will they find the peace they crave, or will their fledgling love be the final casualty of war?

Continuing the GUARDIANS OF THE CROWN series with a story of spies and traitors and a time when the price of betrayal is death...London 1654: As England languishes in the grip of the reign of Oliver Cromwell, there are those who plot to restore the King. Fleeing her old life, Thamsine Granville has nothing left to lose. Alone and friendless, the desperate act of throwing a brick at the coach of Oliver Cromwell could well mean her death. Only the act of a stranger saves her. Kit Lovell is one of the King's men, a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time cheating at cards, living off his wealthy and attractive mistress, and plotting the death of Oliver Cromwell.Far from the bored, benevolent rescuer that he seems, Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal - a world that has no room for falling in love.Torn between Thamsine and loyalty to his master and King, Kit's carefully constructed web of lies begins to unravel and to save Thamsine he must make one last desperate gamble - the cost of which might be his life.

When Nathaniel Preston stumbles into Dr Jessica Shepherd's garden, she is reluctant to believe he has crossed more than three hundred years to seek her help. He must help her understand why he has travelled from the midst of civil war to the quiet English countryside of the twentieth century.But is falling in love with him destined to end in heartbreak? Jessica knows he must return to his own time and face certain death in battle.Why has Nathaniel been sent to find Jessica? Can their love survive a bloody battle…and overcome time?

A family ripped apart in a country divided by war . . .England 1642: Hardened mercenary, Adam Coulter returns to England sickened by violence, seeking only peace, but he finds England on the brink of civil war. He has seen first-hand what that will mean for every man, woman and child and wants no part of it.King or Parliament? Neutrality is not an option and Adam can only be true to his conscience, not the dictates of his family.Having escaped a loveless marriage, Perdita Gray has found much needed sanctuary and the love of a good man, but her fragile world begins to crumble as Adam Coulter bursts into her life. This stranger brings not only the reality of war to her doorstep but reignites an old family feud, threatening everything and everyone she holds dear.As the war and family tensions collide around them, Adam and Perdita are torn between old loyalties and a growing attraction that must be resisted.

England 1643: Deliverance Felton has been left to defend her home, Kinton Lacy Castle in a time of civil war. She can shoot and wield a sword as well as any man and anything she needs to know about siege warfare she has learned from a book...but no book can prepare her for what is to come.Everything Captain Luke Collyer knows about siege warfare - and women - he has learned from experience. When he is sent by Sir John Felton to defend Kinton Lacy Castle against the Royalists, he will be up against a formidable force.He had not reckoned on that force being Sir John's daughter, Deliverance.Deliverance will not give up her command lightly and Luke will have to face a challenge to his authority as fierce as the cavalier foe outside the walls.As betrayal surfaces, they must learn to trust each other and uncover the traitor within the castle walls before it is too late for the castle... or their hearts.

England 1923 and the Great War still casts a dark shadow over the lives of ordinary people. Grieving widow, Helen Morrow, has come to England from Australia seeking answers to her questions about her husband's death at Passchendaele in 1917.The only person who can tell her what happened is Charlie's cousin, the reclusive Paul Morrow but, haunted by his own ghosts and badly wounded in the same action, he cannot recall the events the events of that fateful night.The discovery of a coded diary stirs desperate spirits in the house, forcing Helen and Paul on a quest to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, two hundred years earlier.Thrown together in their search to resolve the mystery of Suzanna's disappearance, Paul's memory of that night in 1917 begins to return bringing with it all the horror of the trenches that he has tried to put behind him.In their search for answers and reconciliation, Paul and Helen come up against forces from the past and present determined to keep them apart.Will they find the strength to face their adversaries and find peace and happiness together? If you love haunting historical romances with a touch of mystery this is the book for you:-)