The local Squire, Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine, is bitterly opposed to progress and rules his tenant farmers with a firm if benevolent hand. 320 pages Set in a rural communuty at the end of the eighteenth century. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to blue spine panel. Missing DJ, light sunning to spine with some foxing to boards, ink name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block.

Mundford was hoping to harness on that most powerful of nights: All Hallow?s Eve.See photos for additional content. But when she lost the love of her life, she turned against all she had been raised to believe and a strange power possessed her a power to make people do what she pleased. and in the silent, amber-eyed young woman called Damask Greenaway.Damask was the daughter of a Bible-thumping Christian. like the ruins of the old Roman temple where the rites of Mithras had once been enacted. Mundford was interested in too many things that should not have concerned him. Mundford who never seemed to grow any older and whose name was linked with the terrible Hell Fire Club. For the new Squire had strange ideas?and even stranger friends?people like Mr. When he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand?instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible.

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