Mary Grey had come from Canada to the land of her forebears: Northumberland. As she savored the ordered, spare beauty of England's northern fells, the silence was shattered by the shout of a single name: "Annabel!" And there stood one of the angriest, most threatening young men Mary had ever seen. His name was Connor Winslow, and Mary quickly discovered that he thought she was his cousin-a girl supposedly dead these past eight years. Alive, she would be heiress to an inheritance Connor was determined to have for himself.
Who is this Canadian woman really? What happened before Annabel left abruptly several years ago? What happened to Annabel's lover? And what does the grandfather believe? Mary Stewart describes every scene carefully, it is easy to feel transported into the English countryside or the stables or on horseback during a fierce thunderstorm. This remarkably atmospheric novel is one of bestselling-author Mary Stewart's richest, most tantalizing, and most surprising efforts, proving her a rare master of the genre.