Belgravia

On the night of June 15, 1815, the cream of British society gathers in Brussels for a party that will become one of the most tragic in history: the Duchess of Richmond's gala ball in honor of the Duke. Wellington. The next day, many of the handsome young men who have turned up at the reception will find themselves fighting, and dying, on the battlefield of Waterloo. For young Sophia Trenchard, the beautiful daughter of a prosperous merchant, this is the night that will change everything. But only twenty-five years later, when the ambitious Trenchards move to London's new trendy neighborhood, Belgravia, will the repercussions of that moment begin to be known. Because in this nascent world, in which the emerging nouveau riche rub shoulders with the most entrenched aristocracy, there are those who prefer that the secrets of the past remain buried...