![]() ![]() Alston has no choice but to confront his demons. With the country teetering on the brink of ruin, Emma fights to survive. Secrets come out tearing apart the relationships. ![]() ![]() So, he puts his plan for vengeance into motion, though it will have disastrous consequences for all of them. Colin is resentful at being forced into servitude and forbidden from being with the woman he loves. She introduces them to her troubled neighbor Alston Egerton, who has a clandestine relationship with Stephen Kitts, the soldier out for Colin’s blood.Īs they all become entangled in a twisted web of love, jealousy, desire, and betrayal, the war rages on around them. With her father constantly away on campaign and with her mad mother, Emma is drawn to Colin and his brother, Roddy. The only bright spot in his life is his unexpected, and forbidden, friendship with his master’s daughter, Emma Hardcastle. Colin vows to take up arms for the king and seek vengeance against the men who killed his mother. His master mistreats him and a Parliamentarian soldier torments him as well. As further punishment, the family goes to Yorkshire as indentured servants. Young Scot Colin Blackburne finds himself caught in the middle when Parliamentarians murder his mother because of his father’s allegiance to the king. The Civil War has created a great divide between those who support King Charles and those who would rather see his head on the block. ![]()
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