The Highwayman

by Helen Cannam

Deborah Halsey, brought up by her coldly Puritan aunt and uncle and tolerated only because of her inheritance, has never known affection. She has learnt to be subordinate - even to the extent of accepting an offer of marriage from the elderly and unpleasant Sir Edward Biddulph. Deborah finds her life changed for ever, however, when she is kidnapped by an old adversary of her fiance's, a dashing highwayman demanding ransom money for the Royalist cause. Despite her terror, she finds more happiness than she has ever known as a prisoner of the infamous Captain Black...

192 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1998

About the author

I have been a writer all my life, at least since I could put pencil to paper. Writing - story-telling - has always been as natural to me as breathing, an essential part of who I am.

Sometimes using the pen names 'Caroline Martin' and ‘Mary Corrigan’, but mostly my own name, I’ve been a published writer since 1980 and a self-published writer since 2012.

For some years I wrote a column for the Northern Echo. I have also given talks to local groups on my writing (and once, at the Bowes Museum, on my early Laura Ashley dress!).

My occasional blog and details of all my books can be found on my website at www.helencannam.com. I also venture onto Twitter from time to time @HelenCannam.

And, yes, I am still writing...