Lady a velitel – Jarecki Amy (2021)

Scotland in 1707, when the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland unite into the Kingdom of Great Britain, in an appealing romantic and historical story by an experienced storyteller. Lady Magdalena Keith, the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish earl, does not indulge in extravagant balls and similar eccentricities. She prefers playing the harp or caring for patients in her hospital for abused women. However, everything changes at the Hogmanay celebration – the last day of the year – hosted by her father. Naval officer Aiden Murray does not expect to be captivated by a girl at a masquerade ball on Hogmanay, nor that he will spend months thinking about her while sailing the seas. When Maddie heads to London to save her father's neck from the noose of Queen Anne, she does not anticipate that she will meet Aiden again. Neither of them expects to be thrown into the whirlwind of a romantic adventure that ignites between them, yet goes against the established social conventions of London’s high society. Against the backdrop of real historical figures and events (Queen Anne, the alleged attempt on her life, the Jacobite uprising, and the figure of the real Marquess of Tullibardine), both main characters experience moments filled with tension and horror, separation, and...