Tapestry / Fiona McIntosh.

By: McIntosh, Fiona, 1960- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, N.S.Q. : HarperCollins, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 457 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780732295851; 9781473097212Subject(s): Treason -- Fiction | Time travel -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Scotland -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Love stories. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: In 1715, the Earl of Nithsdale joins the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence. But the cause is lost and the Earl is sentenced to be beheaded. In 1978, Jane Maxwell is celebrating her engagement to Will, a handsome geophysicist descended from the Nithsdales, but though she should be deliriously happy, she is plagued by doubts. When tragedy leaves Will hanging between life and death, Jane's guilt makes her determined to save him...somehow. On a desperate and dangerous quest to find some answers, Jane finds herself swept away and trapped in the past. Convinced that saving Nithsdale will also save Will, Jane embarks on a daring and audacious plot to rescue the Earl from the Tower of London. Past and present become entwined in a gripping race against time - and both will be changed by one woman's determination.
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In 1715, the Earl of Nithsdale joins the doomed Jacobite rebellion for Scottish independence. But the cause is lost and the Earl is sentenced to be beheaded. In 1978, Jane Maxwell is celebrating her engagement to Will, a handsome geophysicist descended from the Nithsdales, but though she should be deliriously happy, she is plagued by doubts. When tragedy leaves Will hanging between life and death, Jane's guilt makes her determined to save him...somehow. On a desperate and dangerous quest to find some answers, Jane finds herself swept away and trapped in the past. Convinced that saving Nithsdale will also save Will, Jane embarks on a daring and audacious plot to rescue the Earl from the Tower of London. Past and present become entwined in a gripping race against time - and both will be changed by one woman's determination.

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