This passionate West Country smuggling saga set in the early
19th-century is an intriguing departure for Tudor mystery writer Fiona
Buckley.
Exmoor, 1800. When farmer's daughter Peggy Shawe meets the charismatic
Ralph Duggan, son of a so-called 'free trader', it's love at first
sight. Determined to prevent the match, Peggy's widowed mother sends her
daughter to live with the Duggans for six weeks, believing she will be
put off marriage to Ralph when she discovers what life is like among a
smuggling family.
Matters take a dramatic turn however when Ralph's brother Philip is
suspected of murder, and Ralph and Philip are despatched to distant
relatives across the Atlantic. Heartbroken, Peggy vows to be reunited
with her lover one day. But it will be several years before she and
Ralph are destined to meet again - and in very different circumstances .
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