The Elopement

Set amongst the luxury and poverty of late Victorian England, Tracy Reess The Elopement is an elaborately imagined historical romance, full of delight and temptation.

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 Away with the Penguins

A wealthy heiress . . .
1897. Rowena Blythe is wealthy, entitled and beautiful. As her twenty-fourth birthday approaches, she’s expected to marry – and to marry well.

An unsuitable match . . .
Her parents commission a portrait of Rowena to help cement her reputation as a great society beauty. However, Bartek, the artist’s young assistant, is unlike any man Rowena has met before – wild, romantic and Bohemian. While society at large awaits the announcement of Rowena’s engagement, it is Bartek who captures Rowena’s heart along with her likeness.

A scandal in society . . .
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?

Praise for Tracy Rees:

‘A natural storyteller’ – Rachel Hore, author of One Moonlit Night

‘Tracy has a rare gift for creating characters you are rooting for from the first page’ – Gill Paul, author of The Manhattan Girls

‘Has such a talent for writing engaging characters who stay with you’ – Hazel Gaynor, author of The Girl Who Came Home

‘Tracy Rees is at the height of her game’ – Rebecca Griffiths, author of The Girl at My Door