Beautiful Deborah Jannvier and her widowed mother live in a tiny cottage at the mercy of Deborah's cruel uncle, who keeps them short of money and food. One evening a darkly handsome stranger arrives at the cottage with a bizarre demand. Deborah must immediately accompany him on horseback to Marymoor, a crumbling manor on the edge of the Lancashire moors where Deborah's great-uncle Ralph is on his death-bed… Historical Romance by Anna Jacobs; originally published by Severn House [UK]