Dark Conspiracy — Jane Lane

Charting the Rye House Plot, a dark conspiracy conceived to murder King Charles II, this story tells of a poor chandler wrongfully implicated in the assassination plot, and of his vivacious daughter, Phoebe. When the young and heroic Derrick Calder, a man of the law and also in love with Phoebe, enters the story, he becomes intent on unpicking the lock to the brutal truth. But the only way he can do this is by becoming one of the conspirators himself. This is a chilling, suspenseful novel with its base in a dark and ingenious past.