Waltz With a Stranger

"May I have this dance?"

Aurelia wasn't hiding exactly. She just needed to get out of the crush of the ballroom -- away from the people staring at her scar, pitying her limp. She was still quite enjoying the music from the conservatory. And then a complete stranger -- dashing, debonair, kind -- asked her to waltz. In the strength of his arms, she felt she could do anything. But both would be leaving London soon...

When they meet again a year later, everything has changed. She's no longer a timid mouse. And he's now a titled gentleman -- with a fiancée. Is the magic of one stolen moment, one undeniable connection enough to overcome a scandal that would set Society ablaze and tear their families apart?

Hero: James Trelawney
Heroine: Aurelia Newbold