Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Now, twenty years later, orphaned and alone she determines to escape from the scandal and disgrace her father sunk to before his violent death, and stows away on a merchant ship back to England -- and her mother's home at Abbeyford Grange. But Lord Royston is too bitter and withdrawn to admit his only grandchild to his sight. He has never forgiven...