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Eve Nightingale has worked hard to make a success of her pawnbroker's shop in the village of Fortune's Folly and she believes that she has left behind her past life as a scandalous London courtesan. But when her former lover the Duke of Welburn arrives in the village everything that Eve has sought to achieve is in danger. The passion between the courtesan and her lover has never died but it is not love that the duke has come for, it is revenge...

April 1809

Letter from Lord Hawkesbury, Home Secretary, to Alasdair Rowarth, Duke of Welburn.

Rowarth

I write to you in absolute confidence, requesting your assistance on a matter of national security. Mutual acquaintances tell me that you are an utterly sound fellow. I am sure this is the case because I knew your cousin at Eton. So, Rowarth, here is the situation. For some time now this department has been investigating the criminal activities of one Warren Sampson, a mill owner who has acquired land around the villages of Peacock’s Oak and Fortune’s Folly in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Sampson is suspected of encouraging civil unrest and sedition and it is imperative that we put and end to his influence. Imperative, I tell you. The man is a blackguard, an utter scoundrel. And now we may have found a way but it is a matter of considerable delicacy. It involves a certain Mrs Eve Nightingale or, as you may remember her, Eva Night…

Pray call on me at your earliest convenience so that I may acquaint you with your task.

Yours in haste

Hawkesbury...

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