In this volume, the story starts to take a melodramatic turn: William has made up his mind to marry Emma, but he must first break off his engagement to the daughter of a powerful viscount. Of course, this viscount doesn't take this lightly, and decides to remove William's temptation by targeting Emma. This volume has all the hallmarks of a Victorian penny dreadful: midnight rendezvous, kidnapping, false letters, and rebellions (the latter mostly on William's part). Mori really starts ramping up to a climax here, so it will be interesting to see where the story goes from here.