Traitor's Moon Author:Robert Neill England - 1679 - Charles II reigns, the Restoration is in sway, but the country bristles with unrest. The air is rife with rumors of plots and counterplots designed for seizing sudden power. In London no priest is safe from the hangman's noose as unruly mobs, spurred on by Titus Oates' revelations of a popish conspiracy, roam the streets seeki... more »ng out all adherents to the papacy.... Young John Leyburne, journeyman clockmaker and by birth and mien a gentleman, is no papist, even though many of his family and friends in the North Country are. Loyal to the Crown, he is nonetheless outraged by the wanton attacks against the priests. It is his meeting with Penelope Langley, the excitingly beautiful daughter of a staunch Lancashire family, that stirs him into vigorous defense of that harassed group....« less