TY - BOOK AU - Gregory, Philippa, TI - Dark tides T2 - Fairmile series SN - 1471172856 AV - PS U1 - FIC ordered PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster, KW - Impostors and imposture KW - Fiction KW - London (England) KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Venice (Italy) KW - 1508-1797 KW - New England KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Great Britain KW - Charles II, 1660-1685 KW - Historical fiction KW - Romance fiction KW - fast N1 - Map on endpapers; Includes excerpt from Tidelands, the first book in the Fairmile series; Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-480) N2 - "Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy - his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows - without doubt - that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter."--Provided by publisher ER -