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Three years have passed since Lally Fletcher fled back to England, but she is still haunted by nightmares of those last decadent days in India - of the terrifying cholera epidemic and the drunken, brutal husband who broke her spirit and left her a penniless widow.
To rebuild her shattered life, Lally returns to the scene of her childhood, a village on the brooding, windswept Norfolk coast where highwaymen prey and pirates plot their nefarious deeds. Lally takes refuge in the village parsonage, but this tranquil time of renewal is soon threatened by fresh conflicts and dangers - from a sinister new enemy and from two intriguing suitors: one reliable and loving, the other dashing and reckless.
It is then - when the horror of India is finally beginning to fade from Lally's mind and heart - that whispers of scandal follow her halfway around the world to England...then that she realizes she can contemplate a new future only after she has exorcised the past.
To rebuild her shattered life, Lally returns to the scene of her childhood, a village on the brooding, windswept Norfolk coast where highwaymen prey and pirates plot their nefarious deeds. Lally takes refuge in the village parsonage, but this tranquil time of renewal is soon threatened by fresh conflicts and dangers - from a sinister new enemy and from two intriguing suitors: one reliable and loving, the other dashing and reckless.
It is then - when the horror of India is finally beginning to fade from Lally's mind and heart - that whispers of scandal follow her halfway around the world to England...then that she realizes she can contemplate a new future only after she has exorcised the past.
