The year is 1800 the setting is Cornwall and Madeleine Pelligrew is imprisoned in a mad house.
She has spent the last fourteen years of her life in captivity and she can't even figure out in her frenzied and half crazy state why she is even there let alone to escape from this situation.
One day a mysterious man arrives at the asylum to sign papers for her release into her brother's care.
Confused and scared and after her horrendous experience unsure who to believe she is thrust back into the world again.
But she is back stronger and determined to find out who has done this to her and why.
She embarks on her own investigation into the circumstances surrounding her imprisonment and finds a hotbed of murder and corruption with a paper trail leading back to the actions of her husband and his associates.
But thrown into the mix is her growing attraction to the mysterious Pierre de La Croix.
Who also has secrets of his own being that he is a French captain who has been taken prisoner.
A highly enjoyable historical read.
She has spent the last fourteen years of her life in captivity and she can't even figure out in her frenzied and half crazy state why she is even there let alone to escape from this situation.
One day a mysterious man arrives at the asylum to sign papers for her release into her brother's care.
Confused and scared and after her horrendous experience unsure who to believe she is thrust back into the world again.
But she is back stronger and determined to find out who has done this to her and why.
She embarks on her own investigation into the circumstances surrounding her imprisonment and finds a hotbed of murder and corruption with a paper trail leading back to the actions of her husband and his associates.
But thrown into the mix is her growing attraction to the mysterious Pierre de La Croix.
Who also has secrets of his own being that he is a French captain who has been taken prisoner.
A highly enjoyable historical read.