The hoofbeats grew louder, accompanied by shouts. James's eyes met Thomas's, a silent battle raging within them. "I can't leave you here," he said finally, his voice tight with urgency.
"That wound needs dressing properly."
Thomas's mind raced. "But if they catch you -"
"Then we'd better not let them catch us, shall we?" James grinned.
When James Blackwood, known to the world as the notorious highwayman the Shadow of the Moor, holds inquisitive clerk Thomas Hopkins at gunpoint, the encounter sets in motion a chain of events that will change their lives forever. As their paths continue to cross, they discover something neither had expected - love.
Striking terror in the hearts of the rich and corrupt and offering hope and help to the downtrodden, the Shadow and his new partner in life and crime have to face adventures and challenges, as they find allies in Garth Salt the blacksmith and lonely academic Harold Pritchard, and fearsome, mysterious enemies who threaten to destroy them and all they have built. Will they discover their identities and bring them to justice, or will they be unmasked themselves? And will their love survive hardship, betrayal and constant danger?
