Shadows on a Moor

With dramatic settings stretching from the moors and mills of Yorkshire, England to the heat and veld surrounding Johannesburg, South Africa, all against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is a story of love conquering evil.
Kate is the daughter of Samuel Murgatroyd, a wealthy mill owner whose materialism and greed know no bounds. She despises her father for his selfishness, and when she meets Stephen Bader, an impoverished medical student, their instant attraction is immediately something that Samuel believes he must destroy in anticipation of more financially suitable suitors. His final vengeance is in sending his daughter away to South Africa.
With Murgatroyd’s ruthless cunning abetted by the ongoing Second World War the young couple appear to be split forever and set on separate paths. However, Stephen’s friend John, a deaf, mute youth, has extraordinary intuitive powers which lead him to discover the lengths of Murgatroyd’s deceptions, and together with Kate’s friend in South Africa, Jane Tanner, he helps in thwarting Murgatroyd’s devious plans.
As their lives continue separately, neither Kate nor Stephen are aware of the strange twist of fate that will ultimately culminate in their happiness and the final defeat of the scheming Murgatroyd.