Bertha and Eric arrive on the Island and he has a surprise for her. His aunt left him a beautiful log lodge and he gives it to her for their anniversary. They get a bigger surprise when he... More > discovers his aunts body. She had been shot thirteen years before and everyone thought she went across the lake on her snowmobile and perished going through the ice.< Less
In 1775 a man was sentenced to be
transported for seven years to the Mewstone,
a barren rock off Plymouth Harbour in Devon.
When he had served his sentence he took
the tenancy of Looe Island in... More > Cornwall.
His family prospered through their
involvement in the flourishing trade of
smuggling into Cornwall from the Channel Islands
and France.
This is the story of how a convicted felon
was able to take over a fertile and prosperous
living and bring up his family over three
generations.
It is a novel, based on a scattered and
incomplete trail of true events< Less
