Let Love be the Victor

While defending her honor, Patience fears she has committed murder, flees to a haven in Exeter where under an assumed name she matures to a very attractive young lady of eighteen with flashing eyes and with an expertise as a seamstress. She is hired by a very wealthy woman as a companion and is taken to a estate in Cornwall, which, alas, is her former home! She discovers that an illicit business is being conducted, suspects her parents and then her guardians of being murdered and learns that someone is "out to get her." In an effort to learn the facts, she is abetted by an old crone who has learned of a "priest's hole" and secret passage ways in the old Tudor mansion. As a result of a shooting resulting in deaths a court rules that she is the legal owner of Castelamer, but to support the estate financially, she goes to London, opens a dress shop and is challenged by the Great Fire of London. It is here where she finds that love is the victor. Jack McClellan has created a novel that weaves historical facts around fascinating lives of interesting characters. Quirks of fate, unexpected developments, accidents of nature all combine to keep readers engrossed to the very end.