Publisher's Synopsis
Set in the 17th Century in North West England, against a background of religious unrest, this is the story of Jane Spencer, daughter of a tenant farmer who married the local 'Lord of the Manor' and on his death re-married to become Lady Jane Hoghton of Hoghton Tower, wife of Sir Richard Hoghton, Knight and Baronet, who famously entertained King James the First at his splendid Lancashire Manor House.