The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller One dark and stormy night, a terrified young mother seeks refuge at the home of her former nanny, old Tam, a fisherwoman in St Ives. Distraught, Louise Polmar begs Tam to care for baby Mariella whilst she takes little Patrick to the safety of her own family in France. Louise never returns, and Ella grows up in the little hovel, unaware that she is one of the Polmars of Porthminster Hall. When she is eighteen Tam tells Ella the truth. She decides to make the acquaintance of her family and try to learn the fate of her mother and brother . Are they still alive? Why did Louise leave her, never to return? There are dark secrets at Portminster Hall. As Ella begins to unravel the mysteries of past and present, she finds herself in mortal danger. The same mortal danger from which her mother had fled more than twenty years ago?
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On her eighteenth birthday, Mariella receives shocking news. She is not, after all, the daughter of a poor Cornish fisherwoman. Instead, she is a Polmar, the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Cornwall. Her father died in a mysterious shooting accident when Mariella was a baby, and her mother fled the Polmar home, Porthminster Hall, with her infant son, leaving Mariella with the fisherwoman. Neither mother nor son were ever seen again. Although Mariella is stunned by these unexpected revelations, she's delighted to learn she has a real family still living at Porthminster Hall. She arrives at Porthminster, eager to meet her relatives, but everyone except her grandfather greets her with disdain. The one bright spot is Richard Carnforth, Porthminster's estate manager: for Mariella, it's love at first sight. But her euphoria quickly evaporates as dark and dangerous secrets about the Polmar family are revealed. A classic historical romance embellished with a dash of mystery and a soupcon of suspense, Tanner's latest will delight genre fans. Emily Melton
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