"Can I help you?" said a voice, "Have you lost your way?"

There behind me was a girl sitting sidesaddle on a tall black horse. She was wrapped in a long crimson raincape with a hood that was pulled down over her hair and shadowed her face. It did flash through my mind that she was rather curiously dressed and it was strange that I had not heard the horse's hoofs coming up behind me.

"Oh yes, please," I answered. "I'm trying to walk to Rest-and-be-thankful."

From this brief encounter Peggy Grahame should have had an inkling of what to expect of her new life with Uncle Enos at the old family house. But it wasn't until she met Peaceable Drummond Sherwood, a dashing British marauder of Revolutionary days, that all the pieces began to fit together—even the mystery of the signet ring and the significance it held for her in the present day.

Miss Pope steps lightly back and forth in time to weave romance and mystery into an extraordinarily skillful first novel. Sensitive interpretation by Evaline Ness catch the charm of the story.

From the dust jacket