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The Double Life of Mistress Kit Kavanagh
- Narrated by: Deirdre O'Connell
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Summary
Of all the dangers that she faced, the greatest was discovery.
Dublin 1702....and Irish beauty Kit Kavanagh has everything she could want in life. Newly married, she runs a successful alehouse with her beloved husband, Richard. The wars that rage in Europe over the Spanish throne seem a world away. But everything changes on the night that Richard simply disappears.
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