Menabilly stands bare and desolate on the Cornish coast, its ivy-covered walls hiding the secret which two people will take to the grave: Honor Harris, so injured as a girl she never walked again; and Sir Richard Grenville, the King's General in the West, resentful, proud and bitter to the end...and the only man Honor ever loved. She met him on the night of her 18th birthday at the Duke of Buckingham's ball. Richard was already a veteran of foreign wars, on his way to fame and power. She bade him farewell years later, when, his cause lost and Menabilly surround by the enemy, he vanished through a secret passage from her life...