Eleanor Hastings is hardly an ordinary debutante. She is entering her first London Season at the age of twenty-four, after spending the past nine years with her father in India. With her mother determined to have her make a good match amongst the ton, Ele

As a gambler's daughter, Frances was resigned to spending her life masquerading as a boy, learning how to shoot a pistol and fight with a sword. Constantly moving from town to town, it was far safer than being a girl. But when her father dies sudde

Edmund Westworth (26), the third Earl of Beaumont, and the most eligible bachelor in London, unknowingly started a tradition he now regrets. At age twenty-two he danced the first dance at the season opening ball at Almack's with a young lady who beca