When sixteen-year-old Emilia Daniels elopes with charming ne'er-do-well, Stephen Kirkwall, she is unaware that he is in debt to the sinister Balquidder, a man deeply embroiled in slave trading. Balquidder has an eye on the fortune Emilia will inherit when she is twenty-five, and will stop at nothing. Alone and desperate, Emilia turn to Colonel Noel Beresford, who has known her since childhood. But it is by no means certain that Noel will either help her or believe her...
- ISBN10 0709068549
- ISBN13 9780709068549
- Publish Date 31 May 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 February 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English