The Rebel and the Runaway - Chris Thorndycroft - Bog

Could YOU love a murderer?
In February of 1746, a customs official and a key witness vanished on their way to trial, leaving nothing but a bloodied coat on the road. The details of their gruesome fate became one of England's most shocking murder cases.
When teenage Alice Sinclair runs away from home, her tumultuous journey leads her to employment as a barmaid in The White Hart; a grubby inn on the border between Hampshire and Sussex. She has little idea that her new companions are members of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang; the most feared and violent group of smugglers in all England. Alice soon finds herself adrift in a maelstrom of murder and betrayal and is forced to question her loyalties when she discovers that the man she loves is involved in smuggling, murder and the Jacobite uprising against the Crown.
On the run, in peril and torn between family and love, Alice's story is one of passion and defiance entwined with a true crime that shocked the nation.
Based on true events.