The Black Ridge Rose

By Stuart Tanner

England, 1748.

Highwaymen haunt the heaths, pressed boys vanish into naval hulks, and one signature on a forged card can steal an estate forever.

Eleanor Valen ay-dispossessed gentry by day, masked rider "Captain Vale" by night-robs the rich to buy back her stolen home. When she stops the Devon mail-coach she takes more than diamonds: she steals the miniature of Lady Clarissa Wrotham, betrothed to Sir Gideon Creech, Hanging Judge of the Old Bailey. What begins as a purse-snatching becomes a duel of wits, then a war for justice.

Across moon-lit heaths, through Paris printing-presses, across frozen Channel seas, two women ride-pistols primed, hearts unguarded-pursued by a man who would hang them both to silence a ledger of his crimes. Their love is the last thing he expects; their reckoning the one thing he cannot bribe.

The Black Ridge Rose is a swaggering tale of highway robbery, star-crossed romance, and the gamble of planting roses where gallows once stood. Load your pistols, choose your side, and keep one eye on the road behind-justice is coming, and she rides sidesaddle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3VQV27R
• ISBN13: 9798275941074
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"