There, Sovay meets the dashing Captain Leon, a passionate believer in the French cause.
Eventually, in the last third of the book, Sovay, Hugh, and Virgil end up fleeing to France because they’re wanted for treason in England. Oldfield, family friend and solicitor who is also working against Dysart. Sovay is surrounded by men: Gabriel Stanhope Virgil Barrett, an American who has taken on the job of warning people about Dysart Captain Greenwood, a highwayman Sovay meets in her escapades her brother Hugh, who finally makes an appearance in London Mr. He has taken matters into his own hands and is the epitome of evil. A high official in the British government, he obsesses about the English rebelling, as the French did. As it turns out, he’s the one orchestrating the campaign against Sovay’s father, and countless others. While in London, Sovay meets the spymaster Robert Dysart. He discovers that Hugh was “sent down” because he wrote a seditions pamphlet. Meanwhile, Gabriel, son of the Compton steward, checks on Sovay’s brother Hugh at Oxford.
The housekeeper informs her that her father is no longer there. Sovay goes to London to try to warn her father, who has been away from Compton, their country home, for some time. He then takes his revenge by reporting her father as a traitor. As it turns out, she robs a coach carrying the lover who spurned her. Sovay, betrayed by her first love, decides to re-invent herself as a highwayman. Most of the book is set in England, in 1794. Bold, adventurous, strong-willed, she is the embodiment of what we women would all like to be, if we only had the nerve. With a large cast of characters, it must be difficult to give a distinctive voice to each one, but she manages to pull it off. I was a great fan of her book Vanished, and I think Sovay is even better.
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