The Tenth Gift

 

Author: Jane Johnson

Nominated by: Diane Shervem

Fiction

This is a story of two women, one from 1625 and one from the present. The story starts in Cornwall England and ends up in Morocco, the Barbary Coast. The two women's lives become intwined with much intrigue and mystery. There are Muslim pirates and slave ships.
Set almost four hundred years apart, the stories of these two women converge in an extraordinary and haunting manner that will make readers wonder: Is history fated to repeat itself?

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