Frost Fair — Elizabeth Hawksley

When sixteen-year-old Emilia Daniels elopes with charming ne'er-do-well Stephen Kirkwall, she is unaware that he is in debt to the sinister Balquidder, a man deeply involved in slave trading. Balquidder has an eye on the fortune which Emilia will inherit when she is twenty-five - and will stop at nothing. Alone and desperate, Emilia turns to Colonel Noel Beresford, who has known her since childhood. But it is by no means certain that Noel will either believe her or help her...