The cry of the owl

By Margaret Mayhew

Subjects: Gothic romance, Regency, Smuggling

Description: A romantic period novel set on a lonely, eerie English marsh, in the great days of smuggling. The most shocking thing that Tamazine had heard in her life was uttered by her father on his deathbed: "Blackmanstone..not yours when I'm gone." The only home she had ever know had been entailed to a stranger. When Joslan Penrose arrived to claim his inheritance..Tamazine felt the dark cold of the Romney Marsh grip her.