Ana María and the Fox

French forces have occupied Mexico, and Ana María is sent to London with her two sisters to wait out the danger. Away from her domineering father for the first time, she has a freedom she has never known. Back home, he has already arranged her marriage to another man.

Her uncle, a diplomat with plans of his own, has no intention of keeping the sisters quiet. He wants them seen in London society, hoping their presence will draw sympathy for Mexico's cause. Ana María is caught between a duty at home and a role she is handed abroad.

Gideon Fox keeps crossing her path. He is a severe, self-made member of Parliament who is working to abolish the Atlantic slave trade, in honor of his grandmother. Circumstance pushes the two together again and again.

The book is a historical romance with a political backdrop of foreign occupation and parliamentary reform. What grows between Ana María and Gideon may be worth the risk to the lives and reputations each has built, or it may not, and both must decide.