01329nam a22001577b 450000500170000000800410001702000230005804000140008104100060009508200120010110000220011324500360013526000420017130000210021350009370023420241022152747.0241022b        sa ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d  a9781471172885qpbk  aRDAcOCLC  2E  aEF GREG  aGregory, Philippa  aDark tidescby Philippa Gregory  aLondonbSimon & Schuster UK Ltdc2021  a475 pagesc20 cm  aMidsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy – his son and heir.
The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.

Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows – without doubt – that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter.