Because of a misunderstanding, the volatile duke of Cambridge erupts in jealous rage and throws out his wife and their unborn baby. And then he is shot'.
After the Civil War, the daughter of a plantation owner and the daughter of a slave devise a scheme to keep the plantation going -- hiding the fact they are all alone.
The first in the newly repackaged Kensington Chronicles series, The Hawk and the Jewel sweeps readers from the tapestried halls of Victorian England to the alabaster courts of Arabia.