The Gilded Lily

By: Deborah Swift

Sisters on the run from the hangman in the dark alleys of Old London. But one sister is pretty and the other plain; one's fortune rises and the other's falls.

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Beauty is skin deep; blood runs deeper
One sister is pretty, the other plain.

Shy Sadie Appleby is the plain one, and has never left her small village. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella, who has robbed her employer and is on the run.

Together they head for a new life in London, hoping to lose themselves in the teeming city. Flirtatious Ella is soon seduced by the glitter and glamour of the city and sets her sights on flamboyant man-about-town, Jay Whitgift. Jay is a member of Charles II's 'Merry Gang' and owner of 'The Gilded Lily', a beauty parlour for the wives of the London gentry.
Ella begins to see Sadie is a millstone around her neck, and as she rises in society, she pushes Sadie down. Soon a deep rift has formed between the sisters.

But nothing in the capital is what it seems, least of all Jay Whitgift. And when a desperate danger threatens, will blood prove thicker than water?

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