Her beauty, wit and charm captures the fancy of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, one of the more infamous and licentious members of Charles II’s court. Once grown Alethea’s only desire is to paint and has no wish to marry and lose her independence – but there are three men determined to have her. Her talent for drawing is evident even at the age of eleven and her parents send her to stay with cousins in London where she can train with the famous artist Mary Beale. The Moon in the Water is a page-turning, epic, historical romance from a skilful writer of the period.Alethea is the oldest daughter of Thomazine Heron, whose story was told in The Moon in the Water and The Chains of Fate. The bloody battles could tear the Heron family, and many others, apart for good. When Thomazine finds herself and her fortune betrothed to her cousin Dominic Drakelon while still only a child, she knows there is something she doesn’t quite trust about the sly, handsome boy.Īnd when she realises she is deeply in love with one of the Heron brothers and he with her, can she find a way of releasing herself from the engagement?īut just when she’s starting to settle into her new life the clouds of civil war loom on the horizon, and Thomazine’s whole world – not to mention the whole of England – threatens to change forever.
There is serious, prudish Simon, loyal Edward, clever Francis, the impetuous young Jamie and their romantic sister, Lucy. However, she soon falls in love with the romantic house and the Heron family who live in it. She finds herself torn from all that she knows and thrown into a completely different world.
Thomazine is sent to live with her Heron family cousins in the beautiful rose-coloured sprawling home of Goldhayes in Suffolk. Not only an orphan, but a considerable heiress. When her close family are carried off by the smallpox, the small, ferociously independent Thomazine Heron finds herself an orphan at the age of ten.
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