Helena's Path

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933) was an English playwright and writer, who coined the Ruritania. His father - a priest, a mother - aunt of the writer Kenneth Grahame. He graduated from Oxford. Started as a lawyer engaged in literature, essays and novels published in newspapers and magazines. This success brought him two action-packed novel - "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898), deserved not only popular with the general public, but also to high critical acclaim. During his life, he wrote many works that remain popular today.
"Helena's Path" is a excellent work by Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. The dashing and adventurous Lord Lynborough decides to give up his post in the Grenadier Guards in order to write his autobiography. And so he travels to the magnificent castle at Scarsmoor to take up residence. But little does he realise that trouble is not far away. This trouble comes in the shape of the beautiful Helena Vittoria Maria Antonia, Marchesa di San Servolo.