By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II.
A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.
Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king.
Royalist spy Lady Anne Winter is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this ‘Winter List’.
Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.
As the conduit to her father and to others on the Winter List and surrounded by spies and watchers, Manon lives in constant danger and fear of discovery.
One of those spies is closer than even she could have imagined…
The Winter List by SG MacLean is published on 7 September, 2023. It’s a follow-on to her Damian Seeker series.
Read Historia’s interview with her in which she talks about returning to some favourite character after a break, how she goes about researching, and tips for new writers.
She has been shortlisted four times for the CWA Historical Dagger and has won it twice, for The Seeker in 2015 and for Destroying Angel in 2019.
