Stormswift

by Madeleine Brent

April 23rd, 2005

Copyright © 1984 by Souvenir Press

Portrays young Jemimah Lawley's struggle to reclaim the opulent English estate which is her birthright ...

In her new world, they call her Lalla. How the spoilt young woman named Jemimah Lawley, sole heiress to an opulent English estate, came to be known as Lalla of Shul is a colorful, romantic adventure set in a nineteenth century tribal mountain village.

During a brutal attack on a British mission, Jemimah's parents are murdered and she is taken captive—sold into a life of slavery in the remote and primitive kingdom of Shul. Yet she vows to survive every humiliation—harboring in her heart the impossible dream of escape—and return to the land of her birth. Then as abruptly as her life in Shul had begun, the opportunity appears. Lalla begins her treacherous journey aided only by an enigmatic stranger who seems to despise her, and whose feverish murmurings about "Stormswift" inexplicably fill her with foreboding as she is led ever closer to the incredible truths lying gin wait for her in her native land...