Eilene Pierson's debut novel, Love and Treachery, is "an old-fashioned capital 'R' Romance, a historical narrative full of convincing detail and rich characters. People don't write this type of novel much anymore, but they should," according to Tom Franklin, award-winning author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Beginning in 1835 with the abduction of a beautiful young heiress from her familial oceanside estate in California, Love and Treachery traces its heroine's picaresque journey from Dickensian London fraught with class conflict to the safety and peace of her true love's ancestrlal home in Ireland.