Wideacre Trilogy Box Set: Wideacre, The Favored Child, Meridon

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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Philippa Gregory The Wideacre Trilogy WIDEACRE Beatrice Lacey strong-minded and beautiful refuses to conform to the social customs of her time. Destined to lose her family name and beloved Wideacre estate once she is married Beatrice will use any means:--seduction betrayal even murder--to protect her ancestral heritage. Yet even as Beatrices scheming seems about to yield her dream she is haunted by the one person who knows the extent of her plans...and her capacity for evil. THE FAVORED CHILD The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the estate rivals for the love of the village they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child. Only one can be Beatrice Laceys true heir. MERIDON Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty vagabond life of a bareback rider in a traveling show. The half-remembered vision of another life drives her son even as her beloved sister Dandy risks everything for their future. Alone Meridon follows the urgings of her dream riding in the moonlight past the rusted gates up the winding drive to a house--clutching the golden clasp of the necklace that is her birthright--home at last to Wideacre.