The Highwayman — Helen Cannam

Deborah Halsey, brought up by her coldly Puritan aunt and uncle and tolerated only because of her inheritance, has never known affection. She has learnt to be subordinate - even to the extent of accepting an offer of marriage from the elderly and unpleasant Sir Edward Biddulph. Deborah finds her life changed for ever, however, when she is kidnapped by an old adversary of her fiance's, a dashing highwayman demanding ransom money for the Royalist cause. Despite her terror, she finds more happiness than she has ever known as a prisoner of the infamous Captain Black...