Elizabeth Revill is a wonderful storyteller, bringing history to life through the most evocative characters.

Publisher Comments: Against The Tide is an all action adventure with a fine and beautiful love story woven through the narrative. That is if he can stay alive long enough to have a future. They reveal that Nathaniel has a double duty, to his oath, and to his heart's future. With his loyalties torn, Nathaniel knows his search for the brutes who savagely took his father’s life, his sad engagement and his family obligations will be tested. But Nathaniel is betrothed to his first cousin, Hannah. Little did Nathaniel expect, when taking up his duties to ride the dramatic Welsh coastline, that he would meet and fall in love with local beauty, Jenny Banwen, horrifically scarred by a sadistic young member of the gentry. Hated in all communities, ostracised and friendless, he faces more than just his father's enemies. Ostracised by most they come into contact with, it is up to them to stop the vicious wreckers and the lawless smuggling fraternity but this results in a high price being put on their heads and far too many thugs are prepared to try their luck at stopping these two brave men.After witnessing the brutal death of his father, at the tender age of seven, by a band of smuggling cutthroats, Nathaniel Brookes swears to find his father’s killers.Īs a man he initially follows a medical career, but he turns his back on his comfortable life and dons the garb of a Riding Officer to fulfil his vow. It is a dangerous, bloody and lonely occupation.

He has a duty to his friend, a debt to be repaid and once more Nathaniel's family and friends are put in peril. Once more Brookes must don the garb of the Riding Officer to combat the brutality of smuggling cutthroats in Devon and Cornwall.

Her father, the Governor of Sierra Leone has been alerted to this tragedy and is known to work tirelessly to stop this hideous trade. Aleka, Goliath's wife is missing, stolen by barbaric slavers. The thrilling sequel to Against the Tide, which was highly acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society, sees Brookes returning to ride again at the request of the King, when his friend and fellow rider Goliath comes back to England to seek his help.

Against The Tide by Elizabeth Revill