Captain Lucas Blackstone has one plan in mind, to avenge his parent's death, when he was young they died in a fire, he blames Mr Havenham who bought the burnt out manor house afterwards. Lucas is determined to destroy the man and if it takes breaking his daughter's heart, so be it.

As the story unfolds the truth is messier than what everyone assumes and the villain all but twirls his moustache, and for me that's where the story loses it's flow. Enjoyable but somehow I felt that the author could do better. ( )