Time & Tide - Tapa dura

Jessica Blair knows how to keep the reader enthralled for page after action-packed page, An intriguing and excellent book, a powerful saga, packed from cover to cover with one emotional twist after another...you are caught up in a world of intrigue, rivalry and heated family disputes which make the blood run cold and the heart step up a pace

The death of her mother in 1813 brings added responsibility to seventeen-year-old Anna Mason. A self-confident girl, she has to shed her girlhood sooner than she would have expected as she assumes many of her mother's tasks in running the household of Hawkshead Manor. Jonathan Wetherby, a business colleague of her father's, is entranced by Anna but she doesn't feel she is able to return his affections while her father remains so devastated by his wife's death. However, whilst Anna's father, John Mason, is an outwardly respectable merchant operating out of Whitby, he is also the brains behind a leading smuggling operation in the district. And with his focus elsewhere, his business - legitimate and otherwise - is at risk; a fact which may have serious repercussions for the Mason family and Anna's future when she stumbles on the truth...