Bücher von Seton Anya Seton

First published in 1946, The Turquoise was the great historical novelist Anya Seton's third novel. It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870sonly to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe.

Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, was a searcher. He had visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthurs Avalon where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Merewyn grew up in savage Cornwalla lonely girl, sustained by stubborn courage and belief in her descent from great King Arthur. Chanceor fatein the form of a shipwreck off the Cornish coast brought Rumon and Merewyn together and from that hour their lives were intertwined.