The Wanton Road

When wounded, grieving war-hero Jack Fiskardo arrives in the London of 1639 from the battlefields of Europe, a veteran not just of conflict but of tragedy, his only wish is to make a life for himself and his two sons different to any he has known. But in an England on the verge of civil war, and a city full of bitter rivalries and deadly secrets, a soldier's past cannot be so easily forgotten.

As the country pulls itself apart there are battles to be fought of the heart and mind as much as on the battlefield, and with the reappearance of his first and deadliest foe, Jack is vulnerable in ways he never was before. Escaping who he was may be impossible - but saving those he loves will mean risking everything he has.

J. C. Harvey is the fiction pen-name for Jacky Colliss Harvey. After studying English at Cambridge, and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Jacky worked in museum publishing for twenty years, first at the National Portrait Gallery and then at the Royal Collection Trust, where she set up the Trust's first commercial publishing programme. Her other novels include The Silver Wolf and The Dead Men.

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