Paula Allardyce
The scene is set in the west country village of St. Barbary in the 18th century. Frances Morley was a most rebellious young, to the despair of her worried mother, strait-laced sister, and many disconcerted suitors. It was only when Mr. Thomas Strickland arrived in the village of St. Barbary from fashionable London that Frances at last met a man whose shocking ways matched her own. Thomas called himself a writer, as if this might excuse his rude behavior and uncommonly direct assault on Frances's affections. ,In her fight to save the life of a little climbing-boy, condemned to death for robbery, Frances becomes more involved with the mysterious novelist. But when Frances's priceless bracelet disappeared, and a mysterious highwayman known as the Moonlighter began terrorizing travels, Frances came to suspect there as more to Strickland than met the eye.,Who is he really, and why is he interested in her valuable bracelet? He might have been a thief and a cad, but he was a singularly handsome and witty one -- and Miss Frances Morley found his kind of danger far more diverting than dreary conventional romance as she plunged into a breathtaking game of intrique, suspense and startling surprise...,Frances's suspicions grow when a Bow Street Runner appears on the scene, looking for the notorious jewel-thief, the Moonlighter.
Gentleman Rogue