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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.
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As children of feuding Derbyshire landowners, Mary Penley and Kit Stansell eloped against their families' wishes. But neither their ardor nor their marriage could survive their own restless natures. Nine years later, Kit is a rising star in the military while Mary has made her way in a raffish, intellectual society of poets and reformers. A chance meeting re-ignites their passion, but still they have very different values. Yet when Kit uncovers a political conspiracy that threatens all of England, they agree to put their differences aside. Amid danger and disillusionment, Kit and Mary rediscover the bonds that are stronger than time, the selves who have never really parted-and the love that is their destiny.
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