Adam and Evelina — Paula Allardyce

He said, "We will be married tomorrow." Then he laughed, " It will be a perfect marriage...We will show the world." He took her in his arms and kissed her.... And so, after a fairy-tale romance, the handsome Adam, Lord Vallence married Evelina, the pretty little schoolmistress. But when the wedding bells faded and the star-struck couple began life together in earnest, they soon found that marriage was not quite so easy. 'Society' could be cruelly snobbish and vindictive. Husband and wife's strong personalities clashed, domestic battles raged. And Adam, loving as he might be, was tempted to return to his former life as a devil-may- care 18th-century rake. Perhaps that was when their story began. the real love story of Adam and Evelina...