"She was known to her companions in the circus only as Chantal.  She had joined them In England when she was thirteen -- an orphan, as she believed, alone and abandoned.

"Mr Galletti and his grandchildren, had taken her in, and taught her the ways of circus life.  Now at the age of eighteen she was an accomplished trapeze artist.

"Until she met the young Englishman in Hungary who called himself Martin.  He had wandered into her life one day, dazed and disheveled, claiming to have lost his memory.

"When he disappeared again Chantal might have forgotten him.  But on that very night, as she performed there was an 'accident' -- involving a broken trapeze bar -- and Chantal very nearly lost her life.

"Then, within a fortnight, two visitors arrived at the circus asking for Chantal.  Gideon Sumner and his sister Belinda had traveled a very long way to find her and tell her for the first time of the true circumstances surrounding her birth.

"Her journey would take her far from Hungary to Wildings, an ancient home in the English countryside.  And there she would find that the mystery of her past had only just begun to unfold."

c1975 312 pages

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