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The Penny Heart (aka A Taste for Nightshade)
The Penny Heart - aka A Taste for Nightshade Author:Martine Bailey Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. — Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate. — Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity... more » to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father.
But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.« less