Mistress Wilding

Before Scaramouche and Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini was already spinning tales of sword and irony. In the Somerset of 1685, a gentleman wins a reluctant bride in a quarrel over a toast just as the Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme to raise his doomed rebellion - and a single incriminating letter, fallen into the wrong hands, can send them all to the gallows. Swift, witty, and bright with steel, thi...