Bouncing along on the hard wagon seat, Lacey is veraciously giddy as she and her Uncle Robert travel to London for new farm machinery. After all, Leicester, the small farming community of her birth, is a completely different world. London in the 1790s awakens Lacey's senses, her graceful deportment, her unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and her fascination with fashions. When Robert thwarts a ruffian stealing a necklace from the Duchess of Richmond,...