A Plague on Mr. Pepys

✍ Scribed by Swift, Deborah

• Book ID: 110307491
• Publisher: Accent Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Mr Pepys 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781635969382

✦ Synopsis

The second novel in the Mr Pepys series by popular historical novelist Deborah Swift, featuring the Great Plague

Sometimes the pursuit of money costs too much...

Ambitious Bess Bagwell is determined that her carpenter husband, Will, should make a name for himself in the Navy shipyards. To further his career, she schemes for him to meet Samuel Pepys, diarist, friend of the King and an important man in the Navy.

But Pepys has his own motive for cultivating the attractive Bess, and it's certainly not to benefit her husband. Bess soon finds she is caught in a trap of her own making.

As the summer heat rises, the Great Plague has London in its grip. Red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death.

With pestilence rife in the city, all trade ceases.

With no work as a carpenter, Will is forced to invest in his unscrupulous cousin Jack's dubious 'cure' for...