The Maid of ButtermereSet in the Lake District at the height of the Romantic age, this is the riveting story of a love affair that led to a nationwide manhunt, captured the public imagination and fascinated both Wordsworth and Coleridge: a story of wealth, title, class and faith and deception. It began with the arrival of a stranger in the newly fashionable 'paradise', a man calling himself the Honourable Colonel Alexander Augustus Hope, brother to the Earl of Hopetoun

told by Jennifer Saint

Having survived that

He changes his name and identity

An hour after this meeting

And the one man you want on your side

powerful debut novel about the choices we make and what it costs to belong

secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story

runs away from the bullies at school on quicksilver feet

is the passing on of secret information

rivalry and rebellion

Within months

The Labyrinth of the Spirits is an electrifying tale of passion