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Wendy J. Dunn Author Of The Light in the Labyrinth

From Wendy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Lover of history Educator Poet Mother Married feminist

Wendy's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Wendy J. Dunn Why Wendy loves this book

The best kind of historical fiction!

By Elizabeth St.John ,

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1 author picked The King's Intelligencer as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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London, 1674: When children’s bones are unexpectedly unearthed in the Tower of London, England’s most haunting mystery—the fate of the missing princes—is reignited.. Franny Apsley, confidante to Lady Mary Stuart, heir to King Charles’s throne, becomes embroiled in the royal court’s excitement over the discovery of children’s bones. Could they be the missing princes? As a devastating family secret emerges, Franny is recruited by her cousin Nan Wilmot to determine the truth behind the bones. Her investigation, complicated by an attraction to the secretive court artist Nicholas Jameson and the influence of an enigmatic royal spy, reveals a startling plot…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of The Beauties

Wendy J. Dunn Author Of The Light in the Labyrinth

From Wendy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Lover of history Educator Poet Mother Married feminist

Wendy's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Wendy J. Dunn Why Wendy loves this book

This work of historical fiction is a love song to the act of creating.

By Lauren Chater ,

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1 author picked The Beauties as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed.

When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her husband’s lands and title are confiscated, her beauty is her best bargaining chip with the only man who can restore their fortunes: King Charles II himself.

But the king’s favour comes at a price. He will pardon Emilia’s husband only if she agrees to be his mistress. Torn, Emilia comes up with a condition of her own: she will consent, but not until her portrait hangs among the famed Windsor Beauties, a series commissioned by the Duchess of…


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