Read more merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife.
Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave, Mehuru.
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