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"Tomorrow the man I love is to die; horribly and in public. Only two other people ever knew of our love and they are both dead now; but there are circumstances which make it natural enough that I should spend the night before the alter... praying for him". Thus spoke Josiana Greenwood in 1496 - and through Josiana, the illegitimate descendant of Martin Reed, the family of the House was to be continued - living through England's most turbulent period - the Tudors, the Stuarts, the violence of Cromwell's war. The House at Old Vine is the second - but entirely self-contained - volume of Nora Lofts' famous Suffolk trilogy, and covers the stormy years between 1496 and 1680.