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|  | | A Broom At The Masthead
1665.
Rebel. Lover. Spy.
Murderer?
The first in M J Logue’s new series, The Drowned Books, features the fortunes of young Thomazine and her new husband, retired Roundhead Major Thankful Russell.
It’s 1665, and His Majesty Charles II has been restored to the throne of England these five years and more – restored with sufficient confidence that he can pardon old rebels like Russell into his service. It’s the dawn of a gilded age of wonders. (Like, Thankful thinks, happy, headstrong Thomazine having noticed a shy, battle-scarred old warhorse like him, let alone cared enough to marry him.)
But there’s a serpent in this Ed | |  | | Entertaining Angels: A Christmas Novella
Winter, 1660.
Sometimes, finding love is as easy as knowing where you last had it....
Retired from the Army after twenty years of service, Major Thankful Russell's whole life till now has been made up of war and intelligence. And now in peacetime, he suspects no more war and, on current showing, precious little intelligence.
The idea of spending Christmas surrounded by drunkenness and debauchery at His Majesty's court is more than he can bear - and so he begs leave, to spend a quiet family Christmas at home.
The problem is, he doesn't have a family. And nor, with his scarred face and his shyness, does he ever expect to have one.
But when an accident of |
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