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The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of a stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Ross and Delmelza's children Clowance and Jeremy in particular, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world - one of both love and danger.  

Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust, and danger to the Poldarks...and always for Demelza, there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross.

A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave among a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription, Amor gignit amorem, haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross, Demelza, and the ambitious and powerful Sir George Warleggan watch their children make the decisions that will shape their destinies. In the closing years of the wars against Napoleon, for Jeremy and Clowance, and for arrogant, cynical Valentine Warleggan, these are troubled and momentous times....

Marnie lügt, wenn sie den Mund aufmacht, sie erleichtert ihre Arbeitgeber um hohe Geldbeträge und wechselt ihre Namen wie andere Leute ihre Wäsche. Bis sie eines Tages den Falschen bestiehlt – Mark Rutand entlarvt sie. Gleichzeitig ist er in sie verliebt und ersetzt die gestohlene Summe, aber Marnie soll ihn dafür heiraten. Mark beginnt zu ahnen, dass ihre Aversion gegen jede Form von Nähe nicht nur mit ihm zu tun hat.