Longest Night

When respectable, independent-minded widow Henrietta Sutcliffe's nephew takes up arms against the King in the autumn of 1642, she doesn't expect the war to reach as far as her quiet backwater farm deep in the Essex countryside. But at midwinter, she receives unexpected guests who will change her life in ways she could never have imagined.

Decent, conventional, cleanly Het, the mending-est lady in Essex, attracted to her nephew's wilful-scruffy commanding officer, a rangy Lancastrian with a redheaded temper?

Never happen. What would the neighbours say?