Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. General Fiction
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As seen on BBC TV starring Warren Clarke
Bristol in 1787 is a booming city where power and wealth beckon those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city, but needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott provides a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves. Employed by her husband and sister-in-law to train the slaves as house servants, Frances meets Mehuru, a Yoruba priest from an ancient and civilised African kingdom. From opposing ends of the earth, from opposing ends of the social scale, Mehuru and Frances confront each other and learn the contradictory desires of passion, love and the vital need for freedom.
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