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In 1385, Edward de Montfort and Rosalyne Parry meet in Canterbury, shortly after Rosalyne and her uncle, Templeton (Temp) Parry, finish meeting with the Archbishop. Temp is a well-known painter who has been commissioned by the Archbishop to paint a panel to hang inside Trinity Chapel, part of the Cathedral at Canterbury.
When Guy Fortescue returns home to England, he finds the country a dangerous place. Amidst trying to reclaim his inheritance and discovering who wants him dead, Guy manages to arrange a fake betrothal for the headstrong yet lovely Hetty Cavendish.
Lady Perpetua, Perry to her friends, and the daughter and of the infamous spy lord, Earl Shaldon, has bolted. Unwilling to be forced into marriage, she flees to the rugged Yorkshire coast to Gorse Cottage hoping to hide away there. Unfortunately, the cottage is already inhabited by the handsome and utterly annoying American painter, Mr. Fox. He and Perry have history.
Cristabelle “Crissy” Shannon and Sergeant David “Davie” Donovan could not be less alike. Crissy struggles to make ends meet and care for her ailing mother. She works as a laundress at the Fort and hopes to join a convent one day. Davie is a cavalry ‘lifer’ who is as fun loving as Crissy is serious.
Charles Wheatly, Duke of Murnane, is still grieving the death of his child and suppressing the anger that he holds toward his estranged wife who deserted him and their son. In order to help deal with that grief, he takes a mission to find information in China. Little does he know the information that he seeks is the beginning of the First Opium War.
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