James sets his tale in the age when gentlemen still wore swords and highwaymen took purses on horseback, the England of Chatham, Johnson, Goldsmith and Burke. Through forest chases and family secrets, the young Manners, De Vaux and a mysterious gipsy are drawn into a story of hidden identity and inheritance.
Old-fashioned romance from one of the busiest historical novelists of the 1830s. Download the free EPUB.