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1800s: The first book in the Cornish book series
The Thief’s Daughter
What you need to know before your trail
Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, and the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free traders swarm onto the beaches and smuggling prospers.
Terrified by a thief-taker’s warning as a child, Jenna has resolved to be good. When her brother, Silas, asks for her help to pay his creditors, Jenna feels unable to refuse and finds herself entering the dangerous world of the smuggling trade.
Jack Penhale hunts down the smuggling gangs in revenge for his father’s death. Drawn to Jenna at a hiring fayre, they discover their lives are entangled. But as Jenna struggles to decide where her allegiances lie, the worlds of justice and crime collide, leading to danger and heartache for all concerned …
Travel Guide
Cornwall
Cornwall
The places in this book might be fictional, but there is a keen sense of time and place of Cornwall in the 1800s
Be sure to visit the smugglers museum in Polperro and the famous smuggler’s den of literary fame – Jamaica Inn
This is the Cornwall of poachers and the thief-takers who try to catch them. Men such as Jack Penhale who try to stop the poaches ad pirates who have had Cornwall under a cloak of fear for too long.
This is a Cornwall under the shadows of one of the darkest periods of Cornish and English history where the American war has been lost and people are having to find whichever ways they can to survive.
Smuggling and thieving seem to be a way of life for many but Jenna doesn’t want to go down that path. Family members are in prison for debt and the future for many, women especially, is not ideal.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Thief’s Daughter
Destination : Cornwall Author/Guide: Victoria Cornwall Departure Time: 1860s
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