Landing in England in 1651 to an unfriendly welcome after the long ocean voyage from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, fifteen year old Penitence Hervey expects a warm welcome from her English relatives, the Killingtrees of Campion Towers. Instead, she is greeted with a reserve as impenetrable and mysterious as the dark silent halls of Campion Towers. There she becomes deeply involved in the conflict between Oliver Cromwell's Puritans and the Cavaliers loyal to the King.
Landing in England in 1651 to an unfriendly welcome after the long ocean voyage from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, fifteen year old Penitence Hervey expects a warm welcome from her English relatives, the Killingtrees of Campion Towers. Instead, she is greeted with a reserve as impenetrable and mysterious as the dark silent halls of Campion Towers. There she becomes deeply involved in the conflict between Oliver Cromwell's Puritans and the Cavaliers loyal to the King.