The early 19th Century. Lady Horatia Waldegrave, daughter of the sixth Earl Waldegrave has fallen for Captain John Joseph Webbe Weston, a soldier of fortune for the Austrian Emperor. But John is heir to Sutton Place — and the dreadful curse that comes with it. In 1048 Queen Edith, driven mad by jealousy, cursed the ground her husband, Edward the Confessor, hunted on and all its future owners. And since then all subsequent generations have been plagued by terror and misfortune. Now John and Horatia are being drawn into its web … Can they find a way to free themselves from this ancient grudge? Or will their love be doomed by forces out of their control? ‘Fortune's Soldier’completes the SUTTON PLACE trilogy, a highly acclaimed history of the curse that was to hang over all those fated to own the doomed manor of Sutton. ‘Deliciously spook-ridden’ - DAILY TELEGRAPH Deryn Lake started to write stories at the age of five then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children and lives in Mayfield, Sussex, with two large cats. She is also the author of ‘Sutton Place’, ‘The Silver Swan’, ‘To Sleep No More’, ‘The King’s Women’ and ‘Pour The Dark Wine’. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher.