Cooped up with her placid sister-in-law and children while her brother is away fighting for Cromwell's cause, Mistress Richenda Farrell is secretly pleased when news comes that enemy Royalist forces are approaching Black Castle. Isolated and seemingly impregnable, it would take a sizeable army to overrun the fortress. So although the civil war will liven up the irksome safety of her home, Richenda feels confident they will never surrender. In fact,...