Description

Ten years ago a shocking murder cut short a blossoming romance between beautiful young heiress Sibyl Higginson and her cousin Brandon Mountford When Mountford an epileptic subject to seizures and memory loss awakened near a bloody corpse he was forced to escape to avoid execution for the crime The years passed nothing was heard of Mountford and it was supposed he had either died or fled the country A decade later Sibyl now Lady Penrith is travelling along a desolate moor when a crazed man stops her carriage and hands her a scrawled note Believing the note to be from Mountford Sibyl sets out to investigate and with the help of her niece Coralie Urquhart she will uncover the longhidden truth behind the murder and the horrible fate of Brandon Mountford