Cecilia Or Flight From A Shadow

It is 1819 and Cecilia Moss is travelling to Switzerland with her family when, stopping at an inn for the night, she meets the Earl of Waldron, a man the reader has met before in one of Bowness’s previous books (Honoria or The Safety of the Frying Pan). He is there with his cousin and her chaperone. The Earl is a respectable diplomat, the Mosses are footloose chancers who appear to be on the run from something or other, but it takes the Earl and his nineteen-year-old cousin less than a minute to fall under their spell. The consequences will change all their lives and eventually force the Mosses to face the scandal from which they have been fleeing.