The Lost Duchess

Title: The Lost Duchess
ISBN: 9780091949242
Author: Jenny Barden
Rating: ⭐ 3.85 (1 ratings, reviews)

When Emme Fifield, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, meets Kit Doonan, one of Sir Francis Drake's men recently returned from the New World, she is only too eager to join his planned expedition to Virginia - not least to escape the scoundrel who has deflowered her.The venture offers the rag-tag band of idealists, desperados and misfits the chance of a fresh start in a brave new world, but the reality proves dangerous beyond their imagining. A series of near disasters confront them early on, and Emme begins to suspect that the expedition guide, Simon Ferdinando, might be a secret Spanish agent.As the plight of the fledgling colony becomes increasingly desperate, she turns to Kit Doonan. But the handsome mariner with a troubled past has his own inner demons to confront, and a son to protect who is unbeknown to anyone else...