Download Scent of Cloves AudioBook Free
Julia Ashley was created to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Her future and any possible enduring happiness depended completely over a "glove relationship" to a guy who was only a name. The Dutch East Indies in the 17th century were the lands of legendary riches; of "nutmeg princes"; of fortunes built on barbaric plantations and slavery. And amid the extravagance, the cruelty and the bizarre customs, perhaps the strangest events of all were the curious weddings that directed girls halfway throughout the world to husbands that they had never seen. Julia had taken her "glove" - of yellowish, pearl-sewn silk - and started out the journey to the island of Rua, to a land of seeming paradise where nothing at all was exactly as it appeared.
