Fast as the Wind

A warship’s gun booms across sunlit Torquay Bay—and Picton Woodridge’s thoughts fly from the handsome town to Dartmoor. “Supposing it were true,” he mutters, wishing his brother were safe aboard his yacht.

On a brilliant spring morning, the Sea-mew lies at anchor off Torquay, while racehorses and the coming races promise Picton every pleasure his wealth can buy. But his brother Hector is in prison, and Picton is convinced a woman’s wiles helped bring him there; now word of an escape stirs hope and dread in equal measure. With Captain Ben Bruce at his side, Picton must face a mystery that has already darkened his family’s life—and may put his brother in greater danger. Can he discover what really happened to Hector?

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