Journey to the rugged, beautiful, and often dangerous coast of 18th-century Cornwall. This series immerses you in a land shadowed by poverty and fear, where desperation breeds daring. Follow characters navigating a world of clandestine smuggling and precarious survival, driven by resilience and the unyielding pursuit of freedom.
Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away ... Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, and the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free traders swarm onto the beaches and smuggling prospers.
Forced from her comfortable life into domestic service, Janey Carhart is determined to make something of life. She eventually finds work as a lady's maid at Bosvenna Manor on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Caught between the two worlds of upstairs and downstairs, and accepted by neither, as she cares for her mistress.
Can you trust a man with no name?Cornwall, 1861Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall's beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive ...