Written
in their Stars
(The Lydiard Chronicles 1649 - 1664)
By
Elizabeth St.John
London,
1649.
Horrified
eyewitnesses to King Charles’s bloody execution, Royalists Nan Wilmot and
Frances Apsley plot to return the king’s exiled son to England’s throne, while
their radical cousin Luce, the wife of king-killer John Hutchinson, rejoices in
the new republic’s triumph. Nan exploits her high-ranking position as Countess
of Rochester to manipulate England’s great divide, flouting Cromwell and
establishing a Royalist spy network as Frances and her husband Allen join the
destitute prince in Paris’s Louvre Palace to support his restoration. As the
women work from the shadows to topple Cromwell’s regime, their husbands fight
openly for the throne on England’s bloody battlefields.
But will the return of the king be a victory, or could it rip
apart the very heart of their family? Separated
by loyalty and bound by love, Luce, Nan and Frances hold
the fate of England—and their family—in their hands.
A true story based on surviving memoirs of Elizabeth St.John's
family, Written in their Stars is the third novel in the Lydiard Chronicles
series.
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Written in the Stars
Elizabeth
St.John
Elizabeth St.John was brought up in England and
lives in California. To inform her writing, she has tracked down family papers
and residences from Nottingham Castle, Lydiard Park, and Castle Fonmon to the
Tower of London. Although the family sold a few castles and country homes along
the way (it's hard to keep a good castle going these days), Elizabeth's family
still occupy them - in the form of portraits, memoirs, and gardens that carry
their imprint. And the occasional ghost.
Elizabeth’s debut novel, The Lady of the Tower, has
been an Amazon best seller since its release in 2016, and has won numerous
awards for historical fiction. By Love Divided, the second in The Lydiard
Chronicles series, follows the fortunes of the St.John family during the
English Civil War, and was featured a the 2018 Swindon Festival of
Literature as well as recognized with an “Editors’ Choice” by the Historical
Novel Society. Elizabeth’s currently working on the next in the
series, telling of the lives of the St.John women after the Civil War and into
the Restoration.
Elizabeth loves to hear from readers, you can find
her: Website, Amazon
Author Page, Twitter, Facebook
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