Publisher's Synopsis
Thomasina, a maid in a nineteenth century Cornish household, is forced to flee when she is violated, then falsely accused of theft by a titled member of the family. Reunited with Jeffrey, her charming but immoral, childhood sweetheart, she embarks with him on a brief but lucrative career of highway robbery on the roads of Cornwall and Bristol, and remains undetected, protected by her sex. But what is the connection between Thomasina and the young boy shipwrecked and rescued unconscious from the cruel rocks of St Michael's Mount, the island home of the St Aubyn family?
