Set in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley Kinraid, who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry...
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, this work follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil setting of rural southern England to the turbulent industrial north.