Dr Rodney Prince had never seen a girl who looked more out of place in the grime and squalor of the Fifteen Streets than did Kate Hannigan. He knew she had suffered at the hands of men: Tim Hannigan, her "father", was a vicious bully; John Herrington, a smooth-talking seducer, had left her with his child.
But Rodney Prince's desire for a family had bee frozen out by a wife who'd wanted Harley Street, not a Tyneside slum. By contrast, Kate glowed a warmth that far outshone the hard, brittle beauty of Stella, and exposed the emptiness in his heart.
And so, between Rodney Prince, a wealthy man locked in an unhappy marriage, and Kate Hannigan, a bastard child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all concepts of an Edwardian society . . .
