Sybil Powell
ASIN: B010IC0T2S
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 210
The Daughter of Sandstone Manor is set in the 1700’s where smuggling and lewd behaviour was common practice.Lady Isobel was witness to her father’s murder and threatened by the culprit, an event which led her to leave her family home and take a post as a servant in a hostelry under the assumed name of Jess Newman.The story is a tale of events in her young life from when the she arrives at the Inn and her father’s murderer Edward Grant finds her. Edward Grant wants her for his mistress but the information she has gathered on his future plans, he decides to rape and kill her.Her one saviour is Charles Blake a senior figure in the Riding Officers (later to become Coast Guards) a mystery man to all who frequented the Inn. Charles was a handsome young man and at first she held him in suspicion until gradually he proved himself to be a friend.The book gives some insight to the life, romance ...