Gemini - Dorothy Dunnett [428]
TO LIE WITH LIONS
As three courts vie for his allegiance, Nicholas finds himself embroiled in furious combat with his estranged wife for the future of their young son. He embarks on the greatest business scheme of his life—beginning with a journey to Iceland. But while Nicholas confronts merchant knights and the frozen volcanic wastelands of the North, a greater challenge awaits: the vengeful Gelis, whose secrets threaten to topple all Nicholas has achieved.
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CAPRICE AND RONDO
Winter 1474 finds Nicholas exiled in the frozen port of Danzig, Poland. His Machiavellian exploits in Scotland have cost him friends and family—not to mention countless riches. As Nicholas pursues his future, his estranged wife, Gelis, seeks the truth about his past, only to discover the secret identity of his latest comrade in arms—a ghost from the past poised to deal him the crowning death blow.
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GEMINI
It is 1477 and Nicholas returns to Scotland in search of personal redemption and a haven for his recently reunited family. Friends and foes from many a past adventure converge on the scene as Nicholas becomes swept up in a political involving the Scottish royal family. With tensions escalating and the secrets of his heritage emerging, Nicholas finds that peace can be the most elusive achievement of all.
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FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MAY 2001
Copyright © 2000 by Dorothy Dunnett
Introduction copyright © 2000 by Judith Wilt
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Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, London, and subsequently in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2000.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Dunnett, Dorothy.
Gemini / Dorothy Dunnett.
p. cm.—(The house of Niccolò)
eISBN: 978-0-307-76233-7
1. Vander Poele, Nicholas (Fictitious character)—Fiction.
2. Belgium—History—To 1555—Fiction. 3. Adventure and
adventurers—Fiction. 4. Flanders (Belgium)—Fiction.
5. Merchants—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6054.U56 G46 2000
823’.914—dc21 00-025027
Author photograph © Alison Dunnett
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