A Dubious Prospect

Robert Tremaine-lately of his majesty's diplomatic service-was fast running out of money and options, and unless he turned his luck around, his prospects were rather bleak; he'd no job and was too ashamed to seek help from his former cohorts in the service.
Therefore, he'd staked everything he had to purchase a remote homestead in the southern Spanish mountains-an abandoned property he'd once visited during the Peninsular War. It was a gamble, but his family had been Welsh miners for genera...