History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

Estella’s Fury Author: Barbara Havelocke Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery & Suspense  Publisher: Hera Book Release Date: November 13, 2025 Pages: 377 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Daughter. Murderer. Saviour.       London, 1835.       To high society, Estella is the perfect lady. But her fair face hides dark secrets. What has she done with her husband? And will her past crimes come back to haunt her?        Desperate to escape her troubled life, she visits her friend, Lady Taykall. But when a servant girl disappears, Estella stumbles on a horrifying web of crimes and feels the old fire for vengeance burning inside her.       To mete out her own brand of dark justice she must risk everything.       Even if it means she cannot survive.      Great Expectations...

Estella’s Revenge Author: Barbara Havelocke Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Hera Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 451 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: You know Miss Havisham.      The world's most famous jilted bride.      This is her daughter's story.       Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to hate men and to keep her heart cold as the grave.       She knows she doesn't feel things quite like other people do but is this just the result of her strange upbringing?         As she watches the brutal treatment of women around her, hatred hardens into a core of vengeance and when she finds herself married to the abusive Drummle, she is forced to make a deadly choice:       Should she embrace the darkness within ...