A headstrong young squire, chasing horse-thieves into the night, stumbles upon the house and the spirited girl held within its master’s grasp. What begins as idle curiosity hardens into something far more dangerous, for he has lost his heart to the one person standing at the very centre of the plot.
Caught between his loyalty to his country and the woman he cannot abandon, he must outwit a cunning enemy in a deadly game of signals, ambushes, and midnight betrayals—before the tide turns and the spy slips across the Channel.