Publisher's Synopsis
London, 1771. The unexpected friendship between Tabitha Prewett, the only daughter of a respectable tailor, and the beautiful Mariette de St Aubyn, daughter of aristocratic French émigrés, deepens as the years pass, rising above their differences in social class and religion. When Mariette marries Irish landowner Conor Townclear, Tabitha's emotions are stirred. As angry rioters flood through London during the violent anti-Catholic riots of 1780, leaving mayhem in their wake, Tabitha realizes she loves Conor. Forsaking her faithful suitor, Rob Drury, she defiantly throws in her lot with Conor and Mariette, but it is a friendship that could have devastating consequences for them all...
