# A Crowning Mercy

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- Book: [A Crowning Mercy](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell/a-crowning-mercy) ([A Crowning Mercy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell/a-crowning-mercy.md))
- Authors: [Bernard Cornwell](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-cornwell), [Susannah Kells](https://www.bookquiver.com/susannah-kells)
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN: 978-00-0829-845-6
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2018-06-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy …On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger. But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew. One of four intricately wrought seals – each holding a secret within – it can, when combined with the other three, bring great wealth and power. This power is her true inheritance – but it’s a perilous legacy others will kill for …