
A Crimson Moon.
By P.B. Phillips
A Crimson Moon - Slow burn lightly spiced cozy-adjacent historical novel following on from, yet separate to, A Filigree of Gold.
Kit is heading to the West Country, hopeful of securing his and Rebecca's future together; until powerful, hidden forces intervene.
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A Crimson Moon: A.D. 1697: Kit Pascoe, London's only professional catcher of thieves is heading west, home to Exeter.
Finally, sheltered from the Winter weather, Kit delivers a letter from the irrepressible rogue, Edgeworth Bess, to a grey eyed sailor with a hidden past and mysterious future.
If Kit can negotiate a deal for Bess it will turn Kit's fortunes around, providing enough money to marry his beloved Rebecca. On a busy Devon quayside, Kit is ready finalise the purchase of a silver mine. Painfilled moments later, Kit's world has become dark, dank, and creaking.
Alone, day and night, all Kit has of his longed for future, is a silver locket containing Rebecca's beloved image.
Unexpected journeys, repercussions from a Dutch Catholic plot, the pull of the past and an enigmatic Normandy inn owner all come together by the light of A Crimson Moon.
Snippet from, A Crimson Moon: 'I had no idea how much it would cost to try to reunite idiot me, with Blessed She. I vowed that any price, would be a bargain.' Kit Pascoe/John Solus.