V A Richardson Windjammer 3 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: £20.97 (Moneylender's Daughter, The House of, The Street of Knives: III)

Title In This Collection:-
Moneylender's Daughter
The House of
The Street of Knives: III
The Street of Knives: III
Adam and Jade are approaching seventeen. Both have lost fathers and both have found themselves shouldering huge responsibility. Adam is running Quadrant Shipping and Trading Company, while Jade has successfully taken on her father's moneylending business. They have shown themselves capable and bright, but when it comes to working together, their pride takes over, tempers flare and neither will budge. Then Adam is approached with a lucrative but shadowy proposition. Their relationship in tatters,
Moneylender's Daughter
It's 1637. Almost a year has passed since the House of Windjammer was torn apart by death and debt. Adam Windjammer is aboard the Draco in search of a lost fleet, struggling to win back his family's honour and fortune, unaware that events back in Amsterdam are overtaking him. From the violent shores of the Americas, to the dark heart of Amsterdam and on into the marshes of the holy lands, Adam's path ultimately takes him back to Jade - daughter of the man responsible for trying to bring down the
The House of
The first of VA Richardson's sequence of historical romances about Dutch traders, The House of Windjammer has all the chiaroscuro and busy-ness of the Rembrandt paintings that form a significant part of its inspiration. The plotting is the purest of melodrama and Richardson has no especial commitment to avoiding clichÚ--but there is a conviction here and a sense of a society that is all about bustle and feeling righteous and the complex hypocrisies that go with them.