I was delighted to discover a really rare JQ. One of her earliest and not at all like the rest of her work in some respects, because she deals not with titled Regency but with really dark village secrets. Wade the infamous village outcast has returned to his village a successful novelist. But he needs to put the past to bed and together with the woman who betrayed his trust, tries to put to bed the tragedy which led to his marginalised reputation. Haunting stuff and not a duke in sight.