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* SecretHistory: The whole history of the Lovell Family and the Lodestone counts, but particularly their involvement in the princes in the tower mystery is covered in the book.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: Serena copes with scads of survivor's guilt over her missing/dead twin, Caitlin.
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* TheReveal: Grandfather Dick is [[spoiler: from the past. It's also a ReallyRoyaltyReveal for Serena and her family.]]

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* TheReveal: Grandfather Dick is [[spoiler: from the past. It's also a ReallyRoyaltyReveal for Serena and her family.family and LostOrphanedRoyalty since Dick was adopted as a child.]]
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* StockUnsolvedMysteries: The fate of the Princes in the Tower is revealed. [[spoiler: Edward V died of natural causes, but his younger brother Richard of Shrewbury escaped with the help of Francis Lovell and eventually found his way to the 20th Century.]]

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* StockUnsolvedMysteries: The fate of the Princes in the Tower TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower is revealed. [[spoiler: Edward V died of natural causes, but his younger brother Richard of Shrewbury Shrewsbury escaped with the help of Francis Lovell and eventually found his way to the 20th Century.]]
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* TheReveal: Grandfather Dick is [[spoiler: from the past.]]

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* TheReveal: Grandfather Dick is [[spoiler: from the past. It's also a ReallyRoyaltyReveal for Serena and her family.]]
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* NobilityMarriesMoney: The whole reason Anna and Francis are married is to get Francis's vast fortune into the Neville family.

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* NobilityMarriesMoney: The whole reason Anna and Francis are married is to get Francis's vast fortune into the Neville Fitzhugh-Neville family.
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* MagicalAccessory: The Lovell Lodestar can transport a person through time.
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The Last Daughter of York is a fantasy TimeTravel novel by Nicola Cornick that has parallel plots. In the present day, Serena Warren learns that her twin sister, who went missing eleven years previously, has been found dead. The only catch is that her body was buried in the early 1700s. Meanwhile, during the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses, Anna Fitzhugh Lovell watches the civil war rage around her and her husband become close to the future UsefulNotes/RichardIII.

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The Last Daughter of York (2021) is a fantasy TimeTravel novel by Nicola Cornick that has parallel plots. In the present day, Serena Warren learns that her twin sister, who went missing eleven years previously, has been found dead. The only catch is that her body was buried in the early 1700s. Meanwhile, during the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses, Anna Fitzhugh Lovell watches the civil war rage around her and her husband become close to the future UsefulNotes/RichardIII.
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* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Even though they disagree about Richard III, Anna and Francis love each other and are HappilyMarried.
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* TheAlcoholic: Francis complains that as the king's ward, UsefulNotes/EdwardIV is using Francis's fortune to pay for his large liquor bill.


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* NobilityMarriesMoney: The whole reason Anna and Francis are married is to get Francis's vast fortune into the Neville family.
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TimeTravelEscape: Happens to Caitlin and her grandfather Dick who is [[spoiler: the younger of the two princes in the tower.]]

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* TimeTravelEscape: Happens to Caitlin and her grandfather Dick who is [[spoiler: the younger of the two princes in the tower.]]
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The Last Daughter of York is a fantasy TimeTravel novel by Nicola Cornick that has parallel plots. In the present day, Serena Warren learns that her twin sister, who went missing eleven years previously, has been found dead. The only catch is that her body was buried in the early 1700s. Meanwhile, during the UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses, Anna Fitzhugh Lovell watches the civil war rage around her and her husband become close to the future UsefulNotes/RichardIII.
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*ArrangedMarriage: Anna and Francis are married when they are children, though they don’t live together as man and wife until they are teenagers.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade and HistoricalVillainUpgrade: A rare case of both. Richard III is innocent of his nephews murder, but he is self-dealing and ambitious. Anna Lovell finds his wife, her cousin Anne Neville, to be this as well.
* TheReveal: Grandfather Dick is [[spoiler: from the past.]]
* SpiritedYoungLady: Serena thinks of Caitlin as this, though she learns her sister was more troubled than she knew.
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: The fate of the Princes in the Tower is revealed. [[spoiler: Edward V died of natural causes, but his younger brother Richard of Shrewbury escaped with the help of Francis Lovell and eventually found his way to the 20th Century.]]
TimeTravelEscape: Happens to Caitlin and her grandfather Dick who is [[spoiler: the younger of the two princes in the tower.]]

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