Publisher's Synopsis
When Patrick McKinley steps into Rose Seaton's life, her heart finds its target. However, this bohemian artist is not the suitor for whom she was groomed: her father demands a Yorkshire son-in-law, with a talent for manufacturing, for his ironworks. What Rose wants is more exciting and dangerous, and Patrick soon ensnares her at a ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. But Patrick, for all his charm, is also broke and evasive and his strategies lead Rose into harm and scandal. Then, to indulge his pursuit of artistic utopias, they journey across Europe where Rose meets the other players in Patrick's life. She begins to grasp what it means to be a wife and a mother - and to question her role as a muse.
