HERITAGE OF FOLLY: The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful, wild Northumbrian coast. But there all similarity ended, and enmity began. For between the two families raged a violent and bitter feud – a feud so powerful that the very name of Cadwell made Ralph Batley seethe with uncontrollable fury. Into this stormy
atmosphere came Linda Metcalfe, a young student, who innocently became involved in the tension between the two households on the day of her arrival…
THE FEN TIGER: Deep in the wild fen country, Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered, poverty-stricken existence with her sister Jennifer and her alcoholic father. It was she who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout. And while fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, the man she christened the Fen Tiger.