Treason’s Gift

By Pamela Belle

Summer 1686. Wintercombe. Louise and Alex mourn the death of their baby son.

Louise sinks into depression and Alex seeks comfort in the arms of another woman.

Alex finds refuge and revolutionary intrigue in Holland while his cousin Charles, long desirous of Louise and the family home, returns from exile, intent on fulfilling his ambition at last: to be master of Wintercombe.

All affairs of the heart, however, are caught up in a larger swirl of events as James II is about to be dethroned and as anti-Catholic, nationalist sentiment swells – a movement clandestinely aided by Alexander and a courtier who proposes to Alexander’s plain-looking and plain-spoken spinster sister Phoebe.

The final installment of the Wintercombe saga.

Pamela Belle was born and bred in Suffolk, the daughter of a local prep school headmaster. She went to the University of Sussex, and went on to become a primary school teacher. She is the author of seven previous novels including the Wintercombe series and the Moon in the Water series.