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Fifteen-year-old Isabella Rockwell's bones ache with homesickness. But home is 8000 a long way away in northern India, and Isabella is imprisoned in the bitter winter of 19th century London. Delivered to England after her daddy goes lacking in a violent struggle, Isabella runs from a life of drudgery and hardship. Rescued from loss of life by way of a gang of road urchins, Isabella locates the shelter and love she so desperately craves. As an accomplished trickster, she starts to save on her behalf passage house with the amount of money she makes from swindling the abundant. After a moment of heroism which surprises even herself, Isabella wakes in Kensington Palace. That is a chance too good to miss. If she can take one of the glowing, priceless paintings, she and her gang will have enough to keep out searing cold and gnawing hunger for the others of the lives. If Isabella plays her credit cards right. What she hasn't reckoned with is her growing fondness for the Princess Alixandrina Victoria Hanover, a sort and lonely female her own years, and heir to the British isles throne. Despite the richness of her area, Alix's life is harsh and without love. When someone poisons Isabella, she realizes it is actually Alix's life which is under risk. Initially Isabella suspects Prince Ernest, a solidified general, and then in line to the throne. Or could it be John Conroy, a powerful schemer, in love with Alix's beautiful spendthrift mom, and eager to get his hands on Alix's inheritance? Either way, Isabella's thoughts of responsibility for Alix and her loyalty to the gang who saved her life, are tearing her apart. Instead of taking good thing about Alix, will Isabella places her own needs besides and cast herself into mortal hazard to save lots of her friend? Only the harsh lessons of Isabella's recent can help her make a decision if she should leave Alix to her fate - a fate tangled up with Isabella's own. A fate which will have consequences very good beyond those she could ever before have imagined.
