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Also by Christine Trent:

The Deadly Hours, September 2020
Trade Size
A Murderous Malady, May 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
No Cure for the Dead, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Death At The Abbey, November 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Mourning Bells, April 2015
Paperback / e-Book
A Virtuous Death, November 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Stolen Remains, May 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Lady Of Ashes, March 2013
Paperback / e-Book
By The King's Design, February 2012
Paperback / e-Book
A Royal Likeness, January 2011
Paperback
The Queen's Dollmaker, January 2010
Paperback

By The King's Design
Christine Trent

Kensington
February 2012
On Sale: February 1, 2012
384 pages
ISBN: 0758265905
EAN: 9780758265906
Kindle: B005JSZOFE
Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Historical

Strong-willed Annabelle Stirling is more than capable of running the family draper shop after the untimely death of her parents. Under her father’s tutelage, she became a talented cloth merchant, while her brother Wesley, the true heir, was busy philandering about Yorkshire. Knowing she must change with the times to survive, Belle installs new machinery that finishes twice the fabric in half the time it takes by hand. But not everyone is so enthusiastic.

Soon, riled up by Belle’s competitors, the outmoded workers seek violent revenge. Her shop destroyed, Belle travels to London to seek redress from Parliament. While there, the Prince Regent, future King George IV, commissions her to provide fabrics for his Royal Pavilion. As Belle’s renown spreads, she meets handsome cabinetmaker Putnam Boyce, but worries that marriage will mean sacrificing her now flourishing shop. And after Wesley plots to kidnap the newly-crowned King—whose indiscretions are surfacing—she finds herself entangled in a duplicitous world of shifting allegiances.

Painting a vivid portrait of life in the British Regency, Christine Trent spins a harrowing tale of ambition, vengeance, love, and complex loyalties against the dynamic backdrop of the early Industrial Revolution.

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