Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history - and for butterflies in particular.Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love - and mortal peril.

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In a tradition which stretches from Daphne du Maurier's The King's General to Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and Alison Weir's Innocent Traitor, this glorious historical novel is based on the life of the great seventeenth-century entomologist, Eleanor Glanville.

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Fiona Mountain

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'Completely engrossing, a must for all who enjoy historical fiction' Choice Magazine

'Wonderful ...A read I will never forget' Emilia Fox

DANGEROUS TIMES

Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Glanville grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates.

[small at the bottom below barcode box] Previously published as Lady of the Butterflies

A FATAL LOVE

Two great loves will lead her into terrible danger. One is her passion for the study of butterflies, then believed to be the souls of the dead. The other is the glamorous Royalist soldier who steals her heart as a girl. Eleanor Glanville's name lives on in the butterfly she discovered. This brilliant novel tells her extraordinary story for the first time.

'Rich and brilliant ... Fiona Mountain is an exceptional storyteller' The Lady

'I was gripped from beginning to end' Katie Hickman, author of The Aviary Gate