Victor Stowell, son of the Deemster, the Isle of Man’s chief judge, grows up wild and gifted and is meant to marry the high-minded Fenella Stanley. A day of temptation with a farm girl, Bessie Collister, sets in motion a crime and a trial in which Stowell, now a rising lawyer, must face his own guilt.
A powerful moral melodrama from the best-selling novelist of the Isle of Man. Download the free EPUB.