Finders Keepers

<p>In a time when women were disposable a young woman is sent off into the wilderness to be married to a stranger.<br>The year is 1749 October 31 All Hallows Eve.<br><br>What she finds on her arrival is enough to make her skin crawl. Limping footsteps blood-curdling screams smoking torches and a house on a cliff... A man she only sees in the dark his breathing labored behind a mask.<br><br>All she wanted was to be respectfully married to be mistress of her own home and children - not to have her baby stolen as good as from her body!<br><br>In the words of the man behind the mask:<br>A betrothal is as good as the wedding vows. You cannot leave.<br>Am I your prisoner?<br>Yes! You shall stay here until you bear me a child. Then you can stay or go; the choice shall be mine!<br><br>The one person who might have protected her her self-appointed guardian Alexander Verhagen was an unapproachable grumpy man who didn't have any regard for her.<br><br>Her only ally seemed to be the housekeeper and she was tied by loyalty to the master of the house.</p>