In the closing days of the Regency, two young women set sail from England for a tiny island in the West Indies. Sarah Romford is a bride on her way to join a husband she scarcely knows, whilst Maria Alvarez - a refugee of the Peninsular Wars - considers herself fortunate to have secured a position as the English girl's companion. Neither is prepared for the two men who await them on St Edmund's island. Matthew Romford, master of New Moon plantation, is a man of iron will and unsuspected passion. His cousin Jacob, the illegitimate son of a former slave, is a dark-skinned Apollo. And when these four are brought together, the stage is set for a tragedy that only the strongest will survive.
- ISBN10 0709079028
- ISBN13 9780709079026
- Publish Date 31 December 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 April 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English