?There he is! Get him! Kill the bastard!?
Cross the King family,one of the most powerful in all of Barbados, and you?re in trouble ?indeed if you?ve crossed them like the young redneck Jason who?sdeflowered Robby King?s sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth, you needto run for your life. And run he does, leaving the girl who loves himat the mercy of a an outraged family that will stop at nothing toavoid the public disgrace that?s inevitable in the 1930s if the truthgets out.
Elizabeth faces a brutal choice: have her child snatchedaway the moment it is born or be exiled in penury forever ? from thefamily and its estate with its palatial mansion and sugar caneplantation. Heartbroken, she chooses the former and is packed off tothe alien world of pre-war London, where her glamorous Aunt Sandratakes her under her far from angelic wing. But scandal is hot on herheels as layer upon layer of secret shame is peeled away over thefollowing decades, exposing raw resentment, persecution and evenincest.
Lurching wildly from the balmy heat of Barbados to theseamy side of early twentieth century London behind closed doors, this epic tale is a gripping romantic thriller spiced with intrigue, sexand scandal.
?There he is! Get him! Kill the bastard!?
Cross the King family,one of the most powerful in all of Barbados, and you?re in trouble ?indeed if you?ve crossed them like the young redneck Jason who?sdeflowered Robby King?s sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth, you needto run for your life. And run he does, leaving the girl who loves himat the mercy of a an outraged family that will stop at nothing toavoid the public disgrace that?s inevitable in the 1930s if the truthgets out.
Elizabeth faces a brutal choice: have her child snatchedaway the moment it is born or be exiled in penury forever ? from thefamily and its estate with its palatial mansion and sugar caneplantation. Heartbroken, she chooses the former and is packed off tothe alien world of pre-war London, where her glamorous Aunt Sandratakes her under her far from angelic wing. But scandal is hot on herheels as layer upon layer of secret shame is peeled away over thefollowing decades, exposing raw resentment, persecution and evenincest.
Lurching wildly from the balmy heat of Barbados to theseamy side of early twentieth century London behind closed doors, this epic tale is a gripping romantic thriller spiced with intrigue, sexand scandal.
