The Sea of Travail: A fifteenth-century historical novel of a hunted manuscript and exile (The Renaissance Sojourner Series Book 2)

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A sweeping fifteenth-century historical novel of separated childhood sweethearts, one bound to a controlling master and a hunted manuscript, the other cast adrift with a disgraced duchess. Adventure, reinvention and a reunion neither may recognise.He Can't Go Home. She Has No Home Left.England, 1445. After four years, the threat of arrest for witchcraft still hangs over Barnabas, and he dare not return to England for his childhood sweetheart Alys as promised. Still under the tutelage of Mustapha al Qali and posing as Giacomo, he's taken across Christendom in search of a mysterious manuscript, growing ever more resentful of al Qali's tight control and secretly building an enterprise of his own that might one day free him.But al Qali has other plans, plans that'll carry them both into danger. Alys, attendant to the disgraced and exiled Duchess of Gloucester, finds herself dismissed with nowhere to go. Her only hope is to find Barnabas, yet the journey changes her circumstances so irrevocably that one question shadows every mile: if she finds him, will he recognise who she's become, and will he still want her?The Sea of Travail is part of the Renaissance Sojourner series, for readers who love fifteenth-century adventure, star-crossed sweethearts and richly drawn historical worlds. Perfect for fans of Ken Follett, Kate Quinn and Hilary Mantel. Read more