Last year, the Roseingrave family's reputation and finances were dragged through the mud by a swindler who took advantage of Mr. Roseingrave's piano-building prowess and eldest daughter Sophie's talents at the piano. Fleeing London, they've now settled in Carrisford, where they hope to rebuild in an upstanding town. But when Sophie meets beguiling silk weaver Maddie Crewe, she's convinced that Maddie is up to something untoward. As it happens, she is. Maddie and the other weavers of Carrisford are determined to run their own con on an unscrupulous businessman who is driving them into the poorhouse. However, Sophie's meddling — and Maddie's burgeoning feelings for her — may stand in the way of both the Roseingrave family's rebuilding and Maddie's swindle.
This is a sweet love story between the two young women, and one that, refreshingly, doesn't have an element of disapproval or shame from Sophie's family, and only the barest hint from society at large. While that makes the story particularly sweet, it also takes it a bit out of the historical context. An enjoyable, if not particularly substantive, historical romance.
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