AMELIA KNIGHT WAS being sent away to Scotland for good. In truth, her mother had never wanted her. Her mother, who’d been called a whore, preferred men over her own daughter. Afraid and alone, ten-year-old Amelia hid in a corner of a dark, empty room above the tavern, sobbing. Within an hour, her grandmother’s carriage […]

London, March 1814 Michael Whitfield, the second son of late Earl of Chatham, was a sucker for a lost soul—always had been, like a damned fool. He’d sensed that in Emma Willoughby from the moment he laid his eyes on her three weeks ago at Bond Street. He shoved his hand inside his coat pocket […]