Crossing the Tamar

Cornwall 1808: In Selwood Priory the dying Sir Walter is watching a cockfight on his bedroom floor. His daughter, Dorothea, is planning the next Selwood smuggling venture, which the sinister Bram Gunthorpe is maneuvering to take over when old Sir Walter dies. Then there are Sir Walter's numerous bastards, two of whom live at the Priory with their mother, Sir Waiter's mistress -- to the horror of the local gentry. Into this situation comes the new heir, the Reverend Veryan Selwood, a reclusive Oxford don with very rigid notions of propriety...Hawksley, Elizabeth is the author of 'Crossing the Tamar' with ISBN 9780708941478 and ISBN 0708941478.