![]() ![]() Spunky and headstrong, she bristles when she is patronizingly described by one of her many admirers as a ``fragile black butterfly'' anything but fragile, she takes lovers across political divides and frees her slaves against all advice. Having been widowed at age 20, she has embarked for colonial Virginia, determined to develop a plantation there. The settling of America and the courtly intrigues of the Jacobite rebellion in England serve as both backdrop and parallel for Lady Devane's path toward her own independence as an aristocrat and as a woman. ![]() Ten years after Koen introduced heroine Barbara Devane in her bestselling debut novel, Through a Glass Darkly, she brings back the strong-willed young woman to face further challenges among the baroque world of the European and colonial American nobility of the early 18th century. ![]()
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