The Carradine Affair Author:Paula Allardyce 1750, England. — Beautiful and headstrong Mary Ann had always lived in a sheltered world -- until the day her pretty maid's romantic indiscretion forced Mary Ann to confront the worldly and licentious Edward Carradine. — Out of this explosive meeting came the most unlikely love ever to scandalize Georgian London. — But one woman was determined ... more »that this unusual couple would never reach the altar, Edward's exquisite but low-born mistress, Sophy Devereux, was both dangerously seductive and dangerously connected -- and she was not above using her unsavory friends from the Pleasure Gardens to achieve her ends!« less