A Desperate Fortune

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Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley delivers a riveting novel that deftly intertwines the tales of two women, divided by centuries and forever changed by a clash of love and fate.

For nearly three hundred years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher.

Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing-for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.

As Mary's gripping tale of rebellion and betrayal is revealed to her, Sara faces events in her own life that require letting go of everything she thought she knew-about herself, about loyalty, and especially about love. Though divided by centuries, these two women are united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and the unlikely coincidences of fate.

Kearsley's decision to offer a fully developed, romantic lead with the perspective of Asperger's is a welcome and refreshing idea. Incorporating rich historical details that feel as vivid as the present enables readers to quickly lose sense of time as the author weaves threads from two eras into one dramatic tapestry.

Kearsley is an expert at seamlessly merging contemporary and historical fiction... The colorful history and romance of the 18th century, combined with the contemporary mystery, create a tale readers will savor.

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The characters from both the past and the present were extremely likable. I especially liked that Susanna Kearsley chose to write a heroine who had Asperger syndrome. I thought she handled it really well and it's not something I've seen done before in fiction. The present-day story, where Sara Thomas goes to France to transcribe a diary written in code, was fun, sweet, and interesting. The story set in the past, focusing on Jacobite rebels, was exciting, sad, sometimes scary, and also sweet. Two of the author's other books, The Firebird and The Winter Sea, also focused on the Jacobites, so there were some familiar faces. For Kearsley fans, you'll get to see characters you know from those books, and also a couple of mentions of characters from Mariana, an earlier book.

So, to conclude this jumbled review, I guess I'll just say that this book has everything I've come to expect from Susanna Kearsley – interesting and complex plots, likable characters that you can relate to, laugh with or sometimes cry with, politics and intrigue, romance, and well-researched historical characters and events. I can't recommend it highly enough and I'm excited to see what the author is going to do next, because her books just keep getting better.

A Desperate Fortune Details

• Paperback: 528 pages ( Download PDF:  )


• Author: Susanna Kearsley


• Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (April 7, 2015)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1492602027


• ISBN-13: 978-1492602026


• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and RITA award winner, Susanna Kearsley is known for her meticulous research and exotic settings from Russia to Italy to Cornwall, which not only entertain her readers but give her a great reason to travel. Her lush writing has been compared to Mary Stewart, Daphne Du Maurier, and Diana Gabaldon. She hit the bestseller lists in the U.S. with The Winter Sea and The Rose Garden, both RITA finalists and winners of RT Reviewers' Choice Awards. Other honors include finaling for the UK's Romantic Novel of the Year Award, National Readers' Choice Awards, and the prestigious Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize. Her popular and critically-acclaimed books are available in translation in more than 20 countries and as audio books. She lives in Canada, near the shores of Lake Ontario.

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