1586 - London, England Sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart is the daughter of one of London's richest - and strictest - cloth merchants. Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son of the late Earl of Dorset. A chance encounter finds Kit falling for the beautiful Mercy's charms, but their love is forbidden. A merchant's daughter and a vagabond - it simply cannot be. If Mercy chooses Kit she must renounce her family name and leave her home. Will she favour duty over true love, or will she give Kit his heart's desire?

 

This book is part of a book series called The Other Countess .

There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Eve Edwards is an award-winning author. She lives in Oxford and is married with three children.