
Unable to bear the prospect of a life at sea young Anthony O' Connell deserts his ship at Torquay & escapes into the Devonshire countryside under a new name When Stella Sprigg adopted daughter of a local farmer encounters ' Zachary' the pair instantly know they are destined to be together Intertwined with the local legend of St Michael's Chapel Stella & Zachary's story takes them from the secluded Devonshire valley to the perilous Mediterranean seas & finally to the poverty & squalor of eighteenth-century London