1680s England is a disturbed place. Thomas and Grace Davenport, from a Dorset Presbyterian family, seek their missing friend, Lady Merriman. They meet the heir to the Earldom of Sherborne, who falls for Grace but a Catholic nobleman cannot marry a Puritan. Through battle, captivity and deceit, they finally come home in the aftermath of failed rebellion and all that means for Dorset and the whole country. |