In the Shadow of Croft Towers by Abigail Wilson

Unfortunately for Sybil, more questions – not answers – materialize at Croft Towers. Even a highwayman – especially one smokey-eyed, confusing specimen who refuses to harm or steal anything from the carriage yet makes them all stand in the rain as he searches for something – cannot stop her from finding out once and for all who her parents are. When her mysterious benefactor’s funds run out and a strange message arrives to seek answers about her parentage at the unknown Croft Towers, Sybil sees no reason to decline the seemingly random offer to work as companion to the owner of the very same Croft Towers. Sybil Delafield is well-educated but an orphan, and in a world tailored for men, her opportunities to I wouldn’t have set off as I did for Croft Towers. “I often wonder what my life would have been like if I had never learned the truth. Is it his inevitable strength and beauty (if he’s the novel’s hero)? Is it because he’s misunderstood by those who know him within the pages, so our sympathy reaches out? Or is it because he’s a figure in the vein of Robin Hood, a romantic symbol of a freer, wilder, more dangerous age? In Abigail Wilson’s 2019 debut, In the Shadow of Croft Towers, a masked highwayman appears once again, this time with gray eyes narrowed in laughter behind his mask, and a quest in his heart for something stronger than diamonds but as insubstantial as the mist: The truth. There’s something about the highwayman that captures our imagination and has done so for centuries. The highwayman: A mysterious figure riding on cloudless nights, a man whose purpose goes beyond treasure for wealth’s sake.

In the Shadow of Croft Towers by Abigail Wilson