Amanda Taylor

17th century England. Charles I is executed with the words ‘I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be.’ His son Charles II is made King. Royalist army doctor Sir Thomas Huck returns to Cornwall from exile, facially scarred from the Civil War, but still with desire for Iben Hartmann, the tombstone maker’s daughter. During this turbulent time what has happened to free-spirited Iben that makes her love one minute and despise the next? It is a time of plague and upheaval following Cromwell’s Puritan regime. A story set in a beautiful location.