James Connor 
Two Milliners 

Hiding inside the hollow pedestal of the statue standing just outside the castle walls, sixteen-year-olds Lavinia and her visiting-for-the-summer cousin, Beatrice, develop a crush on one of the night sentries patrolling the perimeter. When, by chance, they learn of the debilitating illness of the sentrys ten-year-old son, Benjy, they resolve to bring secret medical help to the family after the Duke, Lavinias father, refuses their pleas. At the same time, it is summer in the Midlands and the two young ladies begin to flirt with two lads their own age that they meet in the forest. The working class lads, who serve as apprentice milliners hat-makers in town, do not suspect at first anything more than romance is involved with these privileged daughters of English nobility. But they both soon become swept up in something more, an ill-fated scheme to kidnap a sick lad from his home while a doctor is deceived by the disguised-as-servants cousins into treating the boy on a moonlit forest trail. The plan takes an unpredictable, tragic turn when the mother of the boy is awakened in the middle of the night to find her son missing. She takes the news directly to her husband walking his rounds at the castle, and, still bearing the sentrys sword upon his hip, he flies on horseback after the two milliners responsible. Set in Elizabethan England around 1600, the book mixes adventure and romance in equal measure with the text in the form of a Hollywood script.

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James Connor was born in New Orleans but grew up in Philadelphia. After attending La Salle High School, a private school in Philadelphia, he graduated from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts.

Mr. Connor is also the author of ‘I, Dwayne Kleber’ for teens & up, and ‘Surfing Summers.’ For more visit jamesconnorbooks.com