'Romantic, gritty, evocative and moving - a wonderful read.' - Kate Hardy
Born into a once-respectable family, the granddaughter of a clergyman, circumstances have reduced Roz Trevaskis to working at the Three Mackerel Inn in Porthinnis. In order to pay the fines incurred by her alcoholic mother for 'drunken and disorderly behaviour' Roz has put herself in debt, and has reluctantly turned to smuggling. When her half-brother, Tom, is offered a job as apprentice working on the estate of local Justice, Branoc Casvellan, Roz realises this is an opportunity to dig her family out of trouble. Then Casvellan's brother catches smallpox, and it falls to Roz to nurse him – bringing her into close contact with her handsome employer. But how will Branoc – and his family – react when the truth about Roz's past, and her involvement with the local smuggling trade comes out?
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