title: The Banished Heart
author:  Libi Astaire 
description: Libi Astaire is an award-winning author who often writes about Jewish history. The first book in her acclaimed mystery series about Regency London's Jewish community, <i>The Disappearing Dowry,</i> was named a 2010 Sydney Taylor Notable Book. Other volumes in the series are <i>Tempest in the Tea Room </i>and <i>The Ruby Spy Ring</i>. <br /><br />She is also the author of <i>The Banished Heart,</i>a novel about Shakespeare's writing of <i>The Merchant of Venice;</i> <i>Terra Incognita,</i> a novel about Spanish villagers who discover they are descended from crypto-Jews (Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages); several ebooks of retellings of Chassidic tales; and the forthcoming <i>Day Trips to Jewish History</i>, a collection of essays about lesser known people and places in Jewish history. Her own journey has taken her from Kansas, where she grew up, to Jerusalem, where she now lives.
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  # Teasing Fate
  
  
  ## The Curse Of Bearclaw Castle
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Emilia Hartley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Tempting Fate, Emilia Hartley © Copyright**
  
  
  **Copyright 2020 © Emilia Hartley**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Emilia’s Heartlies](part0003.html#2RHM0-c1c8a919aa9c44c39a64fb730d26260e)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-c1c8a919aa9c44c39a64fb730d26260e)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005.html#4OIQ0-c1c8a919aa9c44c39a64f