Pagan's Cup

In a windswept English village where the old church looms over cramped cottages and older secrets, a tyrannical matriarch holds her household in iron grip. Lady Marbold, the formidable head of the Pagan family, has shaped her adopted son Roderick into somethingapproving to her ambitions, but the young man's heart belongs to Dorothy, the vicar's beautiful daughter. When a stranger arrives in town seeking acceptance and a mysterious cup emerges from the family's dark past, the carefully constructed order begins to crack. Someone in this tight-lipped village knows what the Pagan Cup signifies and will kill to keep its secrets buried. Hume weaves class tension, forbidden romance, and calculated villainy into a satisfying puzzle where nothing is quite as it seems and loyalty is a currency more precious than blood.