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Colum is the owner of Castle Paling, near Falmouth in Cornwall, and is feared throughout the neighbourhood for his dastardly, feudal ways. He abducts Linnet in the country lanes and takes her back to his castle. Having, to use a very old-fashioned term, "compromised her honour", Linnet has no choice but to marry him. She thinks his domineering attitude is like her father's, but learns too late that Colum is very much a dark side of the coin. He earns his vast wealth by luring ships onto the rocks and plundering them, what was known in the old days as "wreckers", and what we would know as mass murderers.
This is the first of the Cornish settings in Philippa Carr's series, and it is brought beautifully to life. The castle, the shipwrecks, the witchcraft, the beautiful but sinister Spanish maiden whom Linnet rescues from the waves, are all incredibly evocative of a colourful and violent era in English history. After Linnet dies an untimely death it is left to her gentler daughter, Tamsyn, to try and find out what happened. Another triumph.
Although somewhat formulaic, these books still have the power to keep the reader turning the pages. This one is set in Elizabethan England and tells the story of a young woman, Linnet Pennlyon, who is on the brink of becoming betrothed to one man, only to find herself forced to marry another, the rakish Colum Casvellyn, when circumstances intervene to change her fate.
Her passionate relationship with her husband changes over time, when Linnet discovers some secrets about her husband that she would have been better off not knowing. Moreover, when a stunningly beautiful stranger is cast upon the shores of the their castle, Linnet's life is never again the same. It is then left to her daughter, Tamsyn, to set to right what once went wrong.
Those who love the genre of romantic suspense, as well as fans of Ms. Carr, Mary Stewart, Anya Seton, Norah Lofts, and Phyllis Whitney, will, undoubtedly, enjoy this book, as well as the others in this entertaining generational series of books.
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