Book description
When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th
century Cornwall, wrecking ships and bringing death and destruction to
seafarers and coastal communities, a young girl is found, barely
alive, washed up among the rocks of a remote North Cornish cove. Her
arrival and the mystery surrounding her background will affect the
lives of those who come to know her and, for Alice Kilpeck in
particular, nothing will ever be the same again.
"E. V. Thompson was born in London, After spending nine years in
the Royal Navy, he served as a Vice Squad policeman in Bristol, became
an investigator for British Overseas Airways (during which time he was
seconded to the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau), then headed
Rhodesia's Department of Civil Aviation Security Section. While in
Rhodesia, he published over two hundred short stories before moving back
to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. His first novel,
Chase the Wind, the opening book in the Retallick saga, won the Best
Historical Novel Award, and since then more than thirty novels have won
him thousands of admirers around the world. "
