<p class="ql-align-center"><strong>***2024 Gold Medalist for Religious Fiction (Independent Publisher Book Awards)***</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>***Winner, 2024 Catholic Media Book Award, Catholic Novel***</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Semi-Finalists for the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p><strong>A thrilling tale, based on a true story, of one woman's tremendous courage and incomparable wit in trying to rescue her husband from the Tower of London the night before he is to be executed.</strong></p><p>The heroine of <em>A Noble Cunning</em>, Bethan Glentaggart, Countess of Clarencefield, a persecuted Catholic noblewoman, is determined to try every possible means of saving her husband's life, with the help of a group of devoted women friends.</p><p>Amid the turbulence of the 1715 Rebellion against England's first German king George I, Bethan faces down a mob attack on her home, travels alone from the Scottish Lowlands to London through one of the worst snowstorms in many years, and confronts a cruel king before his court to plead for mercy for her husband Gavin. As a last resort, Bethan and her friends must devise and put in motion a devilishly complex scheme featuring multiple disguises and even the judicious use of poison to try to free Gavin.</p><p>Though rich with historical gossip and pageantry, Bethan's story also demonstrates the damage that politics and religious fanaticism can inflict on the lives of individuals.</p>