Last we saw Lady Caroline, she was boarding the HMS Conquest with her brother, Viscount Wyeth, leaving the Virginia Colony behind. Her hope was to be reunited with kith and kin at her family's castle, Beaumaer, in the dales of Yorkshire, England. But upon her long-awaited arrival, all is not as she wished it.
Bound by cradle betrothal to the Marquess of Wexley, her cousin, whom she loathes, Caroline feels that he is one fence that must be done away with speedily. But when she discovers that the betrothal is heralded not only by her father and uncle, the duke of Kendyl, but by King George II as well, she knew not how to politely quash such an arrangement.
Too, her father, the Earl of Beaumaer, has his family stay much too long at their manor in London, where they soon find her past grasping at her heels as Jacobite Rebels continue in their relentless pursuit to capture her. An endless menace, their tentacles and schemes seemingly reach far and wide - in low places and high.
Then there is the pirate – was he not hanged in the Colony – or will he show himself as well?
Because of these threats, she fairly becomes imprisoned in her family's manor to but discover that there is no clump of ground she can claim as safe. Feeling pent in and restless, her only desire is to be free – free to ride, free to choose, and free to wed the only man she has ever loved.
But will Captain Jones abandon her? Will he allow his anger with her to overcome his love for her – or will he follow his heart?
And will Lady Caroline find the courage, the fortitude, the fortune to overcome that which would defeat her? Find out in this latest romantic journey by Sheila Atley, "Nobel Secret," the sequel to "Discovering Caroline."
