In Cornwall, 1800 Madeleine Pelligrew an emigre has spent the last fourteen years of her life incarcerated in mental asylums.
Unsure what she has done wrong as she was once former mistress at Pendenning Hall she is stunned when one day a man appears to negotiate her apparent release.
She is determined to go back to find out the truth of why this atrocity was committed, alone and wary of trusting anyone she bizarrely embarks on a friendship with the mysterious French prisoner Captain Pierre de la Croix.
What she finds in the past is filled with murder, theft, spies, corruption and depredation of every sort and betrayal by those she once wholeheartedly trusted.
This was a brilliant tale, full of twists and turns, adventure, romance and just an all round great historical story.
Read two in this series now and fully intend to back track and catch up on the other novels.
Unsure what she has done wrong as she was once former mistress at Pendenning Hall she is stunned when one day a man appears to negotiate her apparent release.
She is determined to go back to find out the truth of why this atrocity was committed, alone and wary of trusting anyone she bizarrely embarks on a friendship with the mysterious French prisoner Captain Pierre de la Croix.
What she finds in the past is filled with murder, theft, spies, corruption and depredation of every sort and betrayal by those she once wholeheartedly trusted.
This was a brilliant tale, full of twists and turns, adventure, romance and just an all round great historical story.
Read two in this series now and fully intend to back track and catch up on the other novels.