A Matter of Principle

A fearless socialist and an ambitious aristocratic politician become bitter enemies in Victorian London, but as their battle over the future of England intensifies, so does the impossible attraction neither can afford to acknowledge.

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London, 1891.

When socialist Beatrice Vale disrupts a parliamentary debate, she earns a powerful enemy in Lord Adrian Whitcombe, Viscount Alden, a young, ambitious politician with a distaste for disruption and an unwavering belief in order. Bea is fearless, outspoken, and determined to change Britain. Adrian is disciplined, composed, and equally determined to preserve it.

Their bitter feud soon spreads beyond Westminster, drawing them into public debates, newspaper columns, glittering drawing rooms, and the darkest streets of the East End. But with every clash, the line between animosity and attraction begins to blur. As their convictions are tested, so too are the hearts neither of them ever intended to risk.