"Dearest readers, I am as surprised as you are to see a new family has entered the social season. The Frasers, of the American state of North Carolina, have travelled to our majestic shores, and while all is fair in love and war, some battles leave no victor, only a trail of broken hearts that makes us wonder if the price we pay is ever worth the fight, and if so, I do wonder if the Fraser family are willing to pay such a price? But one question remind engraved in this author's mind. Who are the Frasers? Yours truly, Lady Whistledown, 1813"