The River of No Return: Penguin Picks

An utterly engrossing historical romance from debut novelist Bee Ridgeway, The River of No Return is a must-read.'Time is like a river. It always flows in one direction.'What if everything you thought was certain was not?1812: On a lonely battlefield in Spain, Lord Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown, is about to die .... But, the next moment, he inexplicably jumps forward in time, nearly two hundred years - very much alive. Taken under the wing of a mysterious organisation, The Guild, he receives everything he could ever need under the following conditions:He can't go back.He can't go home.He must tell no one.Accepting his fate, Nicholas begins a life of luxury as a twenty-first century New York socialite, living happily thus for the next ten years. But, when an exquisite wax sealed envelope brings a summons from the Alderwoman of The Guild, Nicholas is forced to confront his nineteenth century past.