Marguerite St. Juste never knew her parents - she was almost a baby when they died, left to be raised by her uncle, the Reverend John Mansfield, in a remote English parish. But she has inherited something from them: dancing black eyes, a rebellious spirit, and a burning curiosity about the mother she never met. Her mother was a Desmond of Ireland, one of those famous rebels who joined the great insurrection of '97, and whose family still clings to their tattered but proud estate across the sea. When Marguerite finally wins permission to visit Ireland, she discovers a world utterly unlike her English upbringing - a place of wild beauty, ancient grievances, and cousins as spirited as herself. What begins as a journey to know her mother's people becomes something far more dangerous: a girl of mixed Irish and French blood, finding her place among revolutionaries, secrets, and the ghosts of a failed rebellion. L. T. Meade crafts a propulsive adventure about a heroine who belongs fully to neither world yet belongs completely to both.
