The Firemaster's Mistress - by Christie Dickason (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>First published in Great Britain in 2005 by HarperCollins.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>England in the early reign of James I: an unsteady nation adapts to its new king; Shakespeare labors over the tragedies of <em>Othello</em> and <em>Macbeth</em>; bearbaiting is a popular diversion . . . and Guy Fawkes, with a small group of desperate men, hatches a terrifying plot to assassinate the king and all of Parliament by explosion.</p><p>Francis Quoynt is a firemaster who would rather make fireworks than war. Kate Peach is a poor glovemaker and a mistress to the powerful Hugh Taylor, who is forced to hide her Catholicism as she spends her days looking out on noisy, teeming London streets crowded with prostitutes and drunks.</p><p>Once Francis and Kate were lovers before the firemaster abandoned her and the plague destroyed her family. Now they will meet again--as enemies--caught up in the maelstrom of treachery and violence surrounding Fawkes's malevolent plot. In the midst of chaos and madness, the flame of their romance will be dangerously rekindled, as their lives and the London they know are changed forever.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Set during the turbulent British 1600s, author Dickason vividly captures James I's reign and Guy Fawkes's plot to blow up London's parliament in a novel of romance and intrigue....Dickason's tale is fascinating, offering an unexpected level of complexity and a shocker of an ending."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br>
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