<p><b>Tracy Rees's <i>The Elopement</i> is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation, spanning the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England.<br><br>'A beautiful book. Powerful and captivating, the story will transport you to another time and place, plunging you headlong into the lives of its characters' - Hazel Prior, author of <i>Away with the Penguins</i></b><br><br><b>A wealthy heiress . . .</b><br>1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she&rsquo;s expected to marry &ndash; and to marry well.<br><br><b>An unsuitable match . . .</b><br>Her parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artist&rsquo;s young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before &ndash; wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowena&rsquo;s engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowena&rsquo;s heart along with her likeness.<br><br><b>A scandal in society . . .</b><br>Rowena knows her parents would never approve of Bartek, who in their eyes is nothing but a penniless foreigner. As her feelings grow, she has no-one to turn to. Dare she risk everything for love?<br><br><b>Praise for Tracy Rees:<br>&lsquo;a natural storyteller . . .&rsquo; &ndash; Rachel Hore, author of <i>One Moonlit Night</i><br>&lsquo;Tracy has a rare gift for creating characters you are rooting for from the first page&rsquo; &ndash; Gill Paul, author of <i>The Manhattan Girls</i><br>&lsquo;Has such a talent for writing engaging characters who stay with you&rsquo; &ndash; Hazel Gaynor, author of <i>The Girl Who Came Home</i><br>&lsquo;Tracy Rees is at the height of her game&rsquo; &ndash; Rebecca Griffiths, author of <i>The Girl at My Door</i></b></p>