In Edwardian Britain, a young lord grapples with the crushing weight of his title. Lord Usk is beset by social anxieties that make every ballroom confrontation feel like a duel, every introduction a potential humiliation. Then he meets Miss Félicia Steinherz, an American heiress whose fortune threatens to remake everything he knows about power, status, and desire. She is blunt, brilliant, and utterly unafraid of the ancient rituals that paralyze him. What begins as infatuation becomes a collision between two worlds: the decaying grandeur of British nobility and the brash new empire of American wealth. Grier writes with sharp precision about the way love can both liberate and imprison, and how the chains of class are often the hardest to name, let alone escape. This is a novel about what it costs to be a prince, and whether the captivity is in the crown or in the mind.
