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Eleanor is the daughter of a strict puritan and Roundhead major, and lives in a middle ages manor on the bleak wetlands of Somerset. Her longing for color and brightness causes an obsession with butterflies as well concerning an illicit passion for charismatic but troubled Richard Glanville. Richard, the child associated with an exiled Cavalier, embodies everything that Eleanor had been educated to despise and distrust, but he also keeps for her all the allure of the forbidden. Her first hubby dies, apparently poisoned, freeing Eleanor and Richard to marry. But can their love survive suspicion and prejudice, a bloody rebellion which makes them bitter enemies, and a superstitious community that stirs up hatred toward her for her love of butterflies?It seems the only tranquility she can find is in her long-lasting friendship with renowned naturalist James Petiver, a clever young London apothecary who's considered the father of British isles entomology. But when Eleanor and Richard's child becomes apprenticed to James, tragedy strikes, and Eleanor is required to go on a dangerous search for her child that is entwined with a personal quest for truth, liberty, and love.
