Returning to Tyneside from the European wars, in August 1640, Captain John Ellyot is looking forward to a quiet life on his farm at Benwell. But his homecoming is anything but peaceful as the coming Civil War casts its dark shadow over the North of England.
Caught up in a treacherous plot, culminating in the Battle of Newburn and the invasion of Newcastle by the Scots, Captain Ellyot finds himself fighting for his life on the banks of the Tyne and the Wear, making a perilous descent in a diving bell, and rescuing the woman he loves from accusations of witchcraft.
A gripping tale of murder, betrayal, love and revenge.
Returning to Tyneside from the European wars, in August 1640, Captain John Ellyot is looking forward to a quiet life on his farm at Benwell. But his homecoming is anything but peaceful as the coming Civil War casts its dark shadow over the North of England.
Caught up in a treacherous plot, culminating in the Battle of Newburn and the invasion of Newcastle by the Scots, Captain Ellyot finds himself fighting for his life on the banks of the Tyne and the Wear, making a perilous descent in a diving bell, and rescuing the woman he loves from accusations of witchcraft.
A gripping tale of murder, betrayal, love and revenge.