![]() Changing her plans, she asks King to deliver her to the small town where she spent her childhood, claiming a lost love is waiting for her. But it turns out that the carriage isn't going to Mayfair when it heads out of London, Sophie is stuck on the road with an angry King and no way home. ![]() When he denies her request, she pays one of his grooms for his livery and hitches a ride on the back of the carriage. But when she goes too far, pushing her brother-in-law the Duke of Haven into a fish pond after she catches him in a compromising position at a garden party, she asks the rakish Marquess of Eversley, nicknamed King, to give her a ride back to Mayfair. ![]() Unlike her sisters, who take glee in creating scandal and flaunting the mores of Victorian society, Sophie hates feeling like an outsider and detests the hypocritical aristocracy. Since her father went from being a coal miner to a rich businessman to an earl, Sophie has become increasingly unhappy. After Sophie Talbot creates a scandal, she tries to escape aristocratic society by stowing away in the Marquess of Eversley’s carriage-but she winds up in even more trouble. ![]()
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