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Shadows in Regency England.- London, 1815. As England celebrates the defeat of Napoleon, the city reveals its seams: an aristocracy glittering in its salons and an impoverished multitude struggling to survive along the docks of the Thames. Between these two worlds circulates a name feared and revered in equal measure: the Guardian of the Night. To the law, a ruthless pirate; to the dispossessed, an almost mythical figure who defies an unjust order. The Marquis of Rowanhold belongs to respectable London. Educated, restrained, heir to a rigid moral code, he has sworn to avenge the death of his brother, attributed to the Guardian of the Night. To hunt him down, he must descend into the dockside districts, into taverns where the law does not reach and truth hides behind half-light. There he meets Ophelia, a young woman marked by a dark origin, shrewd and dangerous, who lives on the margins with a laughter that is not entirely innocent. An initial misunderstanding—a wrongly assumed identity—binds them in a way both intimate and perilous. Ophelia sees in him something he is not; Rowan, in her, something he cannot fully comprehend. Amid pursuits, secrets, and ambiguous loyalties, both will be forced to confront what they defend: order, justice, truth… and the price of bringing them into the light. As London wavers between decay and renewal, the hunter and the woman born in shadow move toward a territory where the line between light and darkness is no longer clear, and where loving can be as risky as betrayal. Because not all darkness is evil. And not all light reveals the truth.