Learn the long-buried truth in the prequel to the Lindisfarne Series.

"Do you remember the house?" Eva asks. "From when we were children?"
"Of course."
"What do you remember?"
Nathan folds his hands behind his back. "I remember plenty. Playing on the beach with Oliver. Eating at that enormous table. I remember Father taking me to look at the stars."
"What else?" Eva drops her voice slightly. "What happened here? Why did we leave?"

It's 1695, and with his husband newly in his grave, Abigail Blake is haunting Highfield House like a ghost, estranged from the village and struggling to make a good life for her children. Nathan is keeping secrets for his older brother, Eva is too young to see the danger all around her, and Oliver is becoming everything Abigail always feared he would be.

A chance meeting brings Abigail into the path of Henry Ward, a privateer with connections to the rumbling Jacobite movement. Their encounter sets in motion events that will change Abigail's life forever - and leave an indelible mark on generations to come.