Cornwall is remote, but not therefore isolated from the war in the rest of England. Kate, living in Saltash, is looking forward to marriage with Jonathan, and disappointed it has to be delayed when he joins the King's army.
Then the arrogant Petroc Tremaine, owner of a ship which harasses Parliamentary vessels, sweeps into her life and insists Jon is not the right man for her.
Kate longs to be safely married and away from his perturbing influence, especially when she discovers his suspicions about Jon and Jon's dislike of Petroc.
As the war comes closer Kate and her mother go to stay with relatives in Fowey, and she sees more of Petroc whose family live nearby.
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There are dozens of battlefields dating from the Civil War, many of them in this most remote English county. When I was writing this novel we spent a family holiday in Cornwall, and I was able to visit the towns and battle sites featured – and many more! The family were very accommodating indulging me.
I always try to visit specific locations for my novels. Though the towns have changed and expanded since the seventeenth century, the underlying landscape is the same, and with the help of contemporary maps I can hope to visualise what they were like at the times of my novels.