A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley - ISBN: 9781471196157
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Two women, centuries apart, find love and fate collide in Paris.
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A Desperate Fortune

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    512 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2026

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Summary

Divided by centuries, two women are united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and are forever changed by a clash of love and fate. A gripping timeslip romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The King’s Messenger.

For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread, its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal’s cipher. But when…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781471196157
ISBN-10:1471196151
Author:Susanna Kearsley
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:512
Release Date:11 August 2026
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm
About The Author

Susanna Kearsley

New York Times, USA TODAY, and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley is a former museum curator who loves restoring the lost voices of real people to the page, often in multi-stranded stories that interweave present and past. Her award-winning novels are published in translation in more than twenty-five countries. She lives near Toronto.

Susanna is Diana Gabaldon meets Barbara Erskine for a primarily female readership and fans of historical, general literary fiction, light suspense and time slip.

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