Goodreads asked Julia Justiss:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Julia Justiss The idea actually was a result of a secondary character from a Wellingford book, FROM WAIF TO GENTLEMAN'S WIFE. A young farmer's orphan helps rescue the heroine, so impressing the hero that he later sponsors the boy at Oxford. I knew Davie would go on to become a reform politician, and of course, he needed friends. So I created the Hadley's Hellions group, the other three of aristocratic birth but all having reasons that make them not fit in with their ton peers. Christopher (legally the son of a nobleman, but actually the son of one of his mother's lovers) is the final Hellion.

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