Jane Asher

Incapacitated and with his face completely covered in bandages, a successful factory owner proceeds to an unusual liquidation of his shareholdings.

Lord Yearley, an arrogant aristocrat whose younger wife is two-timing him, is the subject of death threats. When a shot is fired at him and he is nearly killed, his daughter asks the Saint to intervene and find the culprit.

When free man A'Bland flees from a false accusation of murder that means imprisonment and death, his children, Alice and Oswald, are seized by the men-at-arms who serve Lord FitzUrse. In the great castle, they are treated harshly at the hands of FitzUrse and his menials. A'Bland joins the band of outlaws, and, together, they embark on a rescue.

Tempest finds two children stowed away on his ship. They tell a story of their father, an indentured slave, being thrown in jail for his refusal to work until the local land owner agrees to educate the children.

Captain Tempest is smuggling a load of farm tools to a group of desperate farmers when he encounters a strange woman at sea. She tells a tale of buried pirate treasure she has discovered in a cave on an island.