Nine years after eloping and a failed marriage, Mary Penley and Kit Stansell, the children of feuding Derbyshire landowners, are reunited when Kit, now a successful military officer, and Mary, a member of an intellectual society of poets and reformers, join forces to uncover a political conspiracy and rediscover an old passion. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Nine years after eloping and a failed marriage, Mary Penley and Kit Stansell, the children of feuding Derbyshire landowners, are reunited when Kit, now a successful military officer, and Mary, a member of an intellectual society of poets and reformers, join forces to uncover a political conspiracy and rediscover an old passion. Original. 25,000 first printing.