Lord of the Far Island [antikvár]

Lord of the Far Island Brought up in the home of her rich cousin where she is constantly submitted to humiliation, irrepressible and rebellious Ellen Kellaway finds her fortunes changed suddenly by the powerful financiers, the Carringtons, whom even her cousin regards with awe. A startling and dramatic tragedy changes the course on which she is set and the scene shifts from fashionable London to an island off the coast of Cornwall where Ellen discovers her family and is caught up in an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue. Dominating the island is the magnetic Jago Kellaway, Lord of the Far Island, who is passionately devoted to it and determined to keep it - at all cost. Ellen slowly uncovers secrets and reveals a number of questions to which it is imperative that she find the answers. Why did the man she was to marry die a week before their wedding? Who was the unhappy Sylva who disappeared from the Island one stormy night ? What was the meaning of the recurring dream of a certain room in which she was conscious of a lurking menace ? And what of Jago Kellaway ? How far is he prepared to go to realize his ambitions? How far can she trust him and what are his real intentions towards her ? As Ellen seeks the answers to these and other vitai questions, she gradually discovers her peril. As the tension rises she knows she is in imminent danger and the reason for it.