The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660 (Luke Tremayne Adventure)

Luke now the Kings special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shires gentry to represent the King across the county in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds social class generational disputes and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate ambitious conniving and predatory women a vindictive husband secret societies the plague closely kept secrets man eating animals and a spate of attempted and successful murders.