Andromeda has been carefully raised. Never leaving the grounds of her family’s estate, her world is controlled, safe. Eventually Papa will marry her to some nice gentleman.
But when flood waters threaten their home, the family must depend on the hospitality of cousins she’s never met — and she soon learns secrets about her parents and grandparents that she was probably never meant to know — not just their dark history, but things still going on that she never guessed.
And she meets the disturbed but fascinating neighbor who came to court her cousin Frederica — but whose eye soon turns to her.
After the summer’s drama and tragedy, Andromeda thought her life would never be the same — but her parents would like to keep it so. Back in their family home, her father watches her more closely than ever, but she’s tasted freedom and danger, and can’t see herself wedding any of the “business acquiantances” who happen to come to dinner and pay her such attention. They’re criminals, she’s pretty sure, and in any case not kind men.
She has nobody to rescue her. But perhaps she can find allies and rescue herself.