Born into a world seething with treachery & suspicion Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars heiress to her late mothers estates & daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history
- & for butterflies in particular. Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love
- & mortal peril.