Only Jack Eastwood feels the need to look more deeply at this self-proclaimed spinster, and what he sees--and the long-ago crime he suspects--lead both Jack and Eleanor to the very edge of desire and danger. As the Beckets feel the outside world looking ever more closely at the nocturnal activities taking place in Romney Marsh, as the Black Ghost rides yet again, Eleanor Becket is forced to risk her family, her chance at love, even her life, in one desperate gamble.