
You are Sir Oliver Tressilian, newly knighted and courting Rosamund Godolphin against her family's old hatred of yours, when her brother Peter rides in to end the match by force. That night your own brother Lionel staggers home bleeding, confessing he has killed Peter in the dark with no witness left to call it fair. You hide him, let the county's suspicion settle on you instead, and lose Rosamund's trust - then follow a summons in her name to a shore where Lionel's gratitude turns out to have a price.
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