Devil Water: A Novel-Quality Guarantee

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“A true story fictionalized by a writer who has a special feeling forthe dramatic . . . Mixed by Miss Seton’s skillful hands, the dust of thepast becomes the clay of the artist and is molded into memorable,lifelike form.” —Chicago Tribune

This fiercelybeautiful novel tells the true story of Charles Radcliffe, a Catholicnobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and ofJenny, his daughter by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds,teeming London, and colonial Virginia—where Jenny eventually settled onthe estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover—Jenny’s story revealsone young woman’s loyalty, passion, and courage as she struggles in alife divided between the Old World and the New.

Miss Seton’snarrative is richly buttressed with the results of scrupulous researchon the personages and the period. Her sole purpose is to tell a rousinggood tale plainly and simply and this she does admirably.” —New York Herald Tribune