A love story set in turbulent seventeenth-century England. * This is the story of Isabel Stanhope, the daughter of a seventeenth-century English Catholic family, who becomes involved with the dangerous political and religious factions of the day. * Katharine McMahon writes about the real lives of women from the past. * Strong narrative, vividly-drawn characters and a historical setting. * Based in part on the true story of Mary Ward, one of the seventeenth century's most adventurous, infuriating and inspirational women. Mary Ward was a woman in constant battle with authority, and her determination to establish a female Jesuit order led her into great danger.