Gloucestershire, English countryside - 1824. Getting married isn't everything in life. And if a bad name haunts you since you were a girl, better put your heart in peace immediately and live free to say and do what you want, without hoping for confetti. Thus Annabelle Bright arrived at the age of twenty-one, growing up carefree, impulsive, all too frank and apparently devoid of futile romantic dreams. Only a shadow is capable of clouding her sunny...