Alys Symons’ beloved father seems too weak to shield her from her cruel mother’s plan to marry her off to the odious Alexander Huston – and in Elizabethan England, a young woman is expected to do as she is told in such matters! Then brothers Tom and Nicholas Merson pay them a visit, and Alys instantly falls for the handsome Nicholas. Could he be her saviour? But there is a strange mystery surrounding the Merson family, and it seems that Alys must put her own life on the line for the sake of the man she loves …