Dark Tides: A NovelNamed a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy—his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows—without doubt—that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home |
Contents
Section 1 | 2 |
Section 2 | 18 |
Section 3 | 41 |
Section 4 | 52 |
Section 5 | 56 |
Section 6 | 73 |
Section 7 | 95 |
Section 8 | 96 |
Section 23 | 230 |
Section 24 | 232 |
Section 25 | 250 |
Section 26 | 260 |
Section 27 | 265 |
Section 28 | 273 |
Section 29 | 286 |
Section 30 | 291 |
Section 9 | 101 |
Section 10 | 110 |
Section 11 | 117 |
Section 12 | 129 |
Section 13 | 136 |
Section 14 | 153 |
Section 15 | 168 |
Section 16 | 172 |
Section 17 | 174 |
Section 18 | 182 |
Section 19 | 190 |
Section 20 | 196 |
Section 21 | 198 |
Section 22 | 223 |
Section 31 | 317 |
Section 32 | 329 |
Section 33 | 351 |
Section 34 | 354 |
Section 35 | 362 |
Section 36 | 367 |
Section 37 | 371 |
Section 38 | 386 |
Section 39 | 416 |
Section 40 | 443 |
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Section 43 | 453 |
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