[Strong Women 02] • The Tintagel Secret

When a woman’s body is found in the quiet Cornish village of Tintagel, Lizzie Nelson fears that her Top Secret will be discovered. Lizzie has moved to Cornwall to guard her secret and to escape from her past. Now she’s receiving threatening notes and her past is about to catch up with her.

Lizzie has suffered at the hands of her family as they try to make her give up her ‘Top Secret’ and her son has disowned her. With her Top Secret weighing down on her, and her discovery that her son’s life has moved on, Lizzie gets lost in the King Arthur myths of her childhood and becomes destitute.

Lizzie is embroiled in a relationship with Jer Thomas, an ex-Hells Angel who questions her closely about the local legends. Hungry for company, Lizzie believes that Jer has fallen in love with her. The village busybody, Julia Scholes, sees Lizzie’s decline and is desperate to get her out of the village, considering her ‘bad for business’.

Detective Inspector Mia Connelly intervenes but Lizzie cannot tell Mia about her notes as they relate to the golden trinket that she is being threatened over, and only Lizzie knows where this is – with her Top Secret. She comes to realise that the piece of scrap, which her mother and father found near Cadbury Castle, has sent her father insane and the rest of her family mad with greed and is the source of the notes. Now someone is coming to get her because she has it.

Echoing Morgana Le Faye’s story in Arthurian legend and based in Tintagel, where Morgana lived as a child, The Tintagel Secret explores the effect stories passed through generations have on our lives and how some people are driven to kill to get what they believe is theirs.

If you like Cornish myths and modern day drama you will love Lizzie and The Tintagel Secret.

The Tintagel Secret is the second book in Sarah Till's STRONG WOMEN Series.