Sign-In
Cart
McAlister's Lady: The McAlister Line
Paperback
Series: The McAlister Line Prequel, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781925833058
Publisher: Richard Marman
Published: Jun 5 2018
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
While trolling through the family's past, Zach and Angela uncover the story of how the first McAlisters came to Australia.
It all started in the quite Dorset town of Cerne Abbas during the Napoleonic Wars.
Vicar's daughter, Christina Proud marries smithy, and sometime smuggler, Will Jenkins, who soon falls foul of the law. Will is given a choice -- take the King's shilling or the noose. So, Will joins the army and Christina's begins her odyssey as a camp follower.
The battalion is quickly deployed to Spain to join General Arthur Wellesley's Peninsula Army, fighting against the French. Threatened by platoon Sergeant Jack Newell and with her husband powerless to help, Christina is befriended by Lieutenant Jonathan McAlister who offers her projection.
With the French Army massing at Talavera, the battalion marches into battle. Under the blistering Spanish sun, Christina must now fight for her life and those she loves. Beset on all sides by bandits, partisans, deserters, French cavalry and the squalor of a military campaign gone wrong. Living by her wits and managing to get by with broken Spanish. she tries to make her escape to a safe haven and hopefully a ship back to Blighty. But does she make it?
Also in
Young Adult Fiction
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
Hinds, Gareth
Paperback
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Alexie, Sherman
Paperback
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: (A Young Adult Dystopian Adventure of Survival, Identity, and a Divided Future World)
Ness, Patrick
Hardcover
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Hart, Kate
Gansworth, Eric
Hardcover
Once Upon a Broken Heart Collector's Edition: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition]
Garber, Stephanie
Hardcover