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Stranger Within the Gates

(1976)
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"Love is a time of enchantment: in it all days are fair and all fields green. Youth is blest by it, old age made benign: the eyes of love see roses blooming in December, and sunshine through rain. Verily is the time of true-love a time of enchantment - and Oh! how eager is woman to be."

When Robert Develyn inherited a Kentish estate, he looked to spend his life in rural peace.

However, the inheritance carried with it a complication within his gates, that of 'ageing spinster' Francesca Thornish, and Robert found himself under a moral obligation to keep a protective eye on that very independent lady. When, in addition, the safety of the black colt, Merlin, was threatened, Robert found that his placid existence was at an end - and that he infinitely preferred the new order of things.

Mira Stables is the author of many historical fiction novels, including The Byram Succession, The Swynden Necklace, and Golden Barrier.


Genre: Sagas

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