John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. L. Stevenson and Thomas Hardy and has remained constantly in print. The novel has many aspects: it is a romance; a historical...

Eighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone believes he was murdered- Arnold Avery, a serial killer admitted killing six other children. But Billy's mother is convinced he is alive. Determined to bring closure to the family , Steven, a grandson, is digging holes all over the moor to find his uncle's corpse. Then in a school lesson he pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help. So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game.

In late seventeenth-century England, young John Ridd returns home to Exmoor and forms a forbidden but enduring friendship with Lorna Doone, the granddaughter of the head of the outlaw Doone clan responsible for the death of John's father.