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With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents the House of Niccolò series. The time is the fifteenth century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his...
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The fifth installment in the saga of Nicholas van der Poele, the Flemish adventurer who rises from obscurity to a position of power in 15th Century Europe. It begins with his bride's wedding night revelation that she is pregnant by his sworn enemy. By the author of Scales of Gold.