About the book: year / Love and fate. The civil war tearing England apart in 1643 has not yet affected Dorcas Slight, a rebellious Puritan living in the countryside south of London seeking to escape her father's pious tyranny. An opportunity arises with the arrival of Toby Lazender, the dashing heir to a powerful royalist family. It is he who renames it “Smolevka”, awakening in her hitherto unknown passions leading to mysterious and dangerous adventures. With the discovery of a mysterious golden seal - one of four, which, when combined with the others, will reveal a great secret and bring the owner a huge fortune. Love, wealth and redemption await her at the end of her difficult journey. Or death…