Alys Symons' beloved father seems too weak to shield her from her cruel mother's plan to marry her off to the odious Alexander Huston - and in Elizabethan England, a young woman is expected to do as she is told in such matters Then brothers Tom and Nicholas Merson pay them a visit, and Alys instantly falls for the handsome Nicholas. Could he be her saviour? But there is a strange mystery surrounding the Merson family, and it seems that Alys must put her own life on the line for the sake of the man she loves ... Telos Publishing is proud to bring back into print a classic romance novel from a great British exponent of the genre, Helen McCabe.