Amelia's Knight — Valerie Holmes

Amelia and her sister Ruth have mixed feelings when their impetuous mother decides they should stay with her sister, Sarah, in the harbour town of Whitby, for Amelia cannot envisage them finding suitable husbands there. However, once she has set eyes upon the gallant, but mysterious, Samuel Knight, Amelia's opinion changes... But her father, Archibald, an intelligence officer in pursuit of villains and a chest of stolen government gold, views Samuel in a rather different light...