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In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot-air balloon lands not far from the Thames River. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire. A few years later, Mary and Percy meet and fall in love in the Godwin bookshop near Black Friar’s Bridge.

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the unpredictability of war. So when April meets Daniel, a young American soldier, whose mother is Sioux and father is of African descent, she doesn't hesitate when she starts to fall for him.

Sie kämpfte für eine Welt ohne Leid und überwand dafür Grenzen: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. England, Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. In Europa wüten die Pocken, Hunderttausende sterben. Auch die junge Lady Mary infiziert sich. Sie, die in Adelskreisen für ihren brillanten Geist und ihre Schönheit gerühmt wurde, überlebt, ist aber für immer gezeichnet. Zunächst zieht sie sich zurück, doch als ihr Mann als Botschafter ins Osmanische Reich entsandt wird, entscheidet sie sich, ihn zu begleiten.