All of Jack’s obsessive single-mindedness on this wedding, his inattentiveness to his staff and the protests, sprang from a duty to his family. She believed him, of course—even admired that kind of devotion. But could that really be the whole truth? If Lovelace had been writing about him for years, then Jack had been ignoring the injustice in his realm long before Kit was betrothed to Infanta Rosa.

