Polrudden

By E.V. Thompson

Book Overview

On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profoundly affect his destiny. Despite hard times, Nathan and his wife Amy adopt Jean-Paul and bring him up with their own son. Nathan considers a return to the ring in the struggle to make a living and keep the ancient house in the family. But events conspire to involve him in a royalist intrigue that eventually leads to Paris - where a beautiful marquise and a dashing count sow the seeds both of tragedy and renewed hope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751545279
• ISBN13: 9780751545272
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Sphere
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary