A Minion of the Moon: A Romance of the King's Highway
On the windswept roads of northern England, under a hunter's moon, two lovers flee toward Gretna Green. Captain Pascoe and Miss Dulcie Peyton have escaped the clutches of Dulcie's tyrannical guardian, Sir Peter Warrendale, but their desperate race north is threatened when their horse goes lame on the King's Highway. In steps an unlikely savior: Captain Nightshade, a masked highwayman who chooses to aid the fugitives rather than rob them. What follows is a thrilling evasion of pursuers, a test of love against society's rigid boundaries, and the question of whether a man who lives outside the law can still possess honor. Speight weaves romance, adventure, and gothic intrigue into a tale where the greatest danger may not be the men who chase them, but the secrets they carry. For readers who crave Victorian novels where love defies convention and the open road promises both peril and liberation.
