# The Penny Heart

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- Book: [The Penny Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey/the-penny-heart) ([The Penny Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey/the-penny-heart.md))
- Authors: [Martine Bailey](https://www.bookquiver.com/martine-bailey)
- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-14-4476-986-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-07-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate. Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder. (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton