Published by Anthology of Poetry, Inc, 2006
ISBN 10: 1883931606 ISBN 13: 9781883931605
Seller: Your Online Bookstore, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Fair.
Published by A Fawcett Crest Book, 1991
ISBN 10: 0449219283 ISBN 13: 9780449219287
Seller: Grants Books, Belding, MI, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ot Proven." It condemned seventeen-year-old Davina to a life of vicious rumor and innuendo. Alone, she escaped to the colonies in Africa and into a strange new world. But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that t (illustrator). Davina Glentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made even more unbearable by her father's sudden marriage to her new governess. Davina's one joy was her friendship with a poor but charming young student, Jamie, whom her father forbade her to wed. And when her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning, the means, motive, and opportunity all pointed damningly to Davina herself. She protested her innocence in court but received only the ambiguous verdict of "Not Proven." It condemned seventeen-year-old Davina to a life of vicious rumor and innuendo. Alone, she escaped to the colonies in Africa and into a strange new world. But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that threatened her reputation and her very life. Language: eng.